John R Pierce wrote: > otoh, reordering the fields in a table would likely require a global > exclusive access lock on the table for the duration of the > operation, which for a large table could be substantial. Obviously you haven't read the previous proposal on how to handle it. It doesn't require rewriting the whole table. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
