L.S.
I was afraid something like this would happen ;)
Just to be clear on the matter, the wrong post was just part of a conversation
between the OP and I. We are not exactly strangers and there was no
intentional nor accidential bad advice intended ;)
For the record I'll repeat on the list that the OP should also note the
mailinglist archive on the matter (both the column position in a select as
well as fiddling with attnum), since the original discussion has been one
that repeated periodically.
> Just to avoid anyone getting strange ideas: editting the catalog
> manually has a 100% certainty of trashing any data in the table.
Well, a good chance, anyway ;)
> Also various things like indexes and foreign keys may use the attnum also
> and become non-functional
Absolutely true.
> It's entirely possible that on an empty table with nothing attached that
> changing attnum manually might work, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Me neither, since I haven't tried that in a while too (the OP was already
aware of this).
Anyway, it's just a good thing people are paying attention around here ;)
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Best,
Frank.