Re: Alter Column Position

Yes I did that and lost all the connections to my sequences.

Tom

On 10 Dec 2003 at 13:16, Nabil Sayegh wrote:

> Derrick Betts wrote:
> > I have a table with 10,000 rows.  We have an application that parses a *.csv
> > file and uploads the data to the database table.  The csv parser takes the
> > column numbers form the csv file and matches the column numbers to the field
> > positions in the DB table.
> >
> > Now, I have to change the position of a column in the DB to match the csv
> > parser.  I have a column in position 28 that I need to move to position 7.
> >
> > Anyone know how to do that?
>
> You could DROP and re-CREATE the table.
>
> CREATE TABLE tmp AS SELECT col1, col3, col2 FROM mytab;
> DROP TABLE mytab;
> ALTER TABLE tmp RENAME TO mytab;
>
> _BUT_: You need to take care of special cases like UNIQUE & FOREIGN KEYs
> etc., i.e. usually you need a better CREATE clause than this easy example.
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Derrick
>
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