Re: R: Field's position in Table

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:24:49AM +0200, vinny wrote:
> I can't really think of any real reason to put the field at a
> particular position, applications don't reallty care about the order
> of fields.

Because it's very convenient for ad-hoc queries!  PG currently assumes
that the column order is the same as when it was created but there are
(unimplemented) suggestions about how to "fix" this.  See for example:

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00983.php

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