Revisiting ALTER COLUMN POSITION support

Hi,

I'd like to reopen the discussion about adding support for reorderable columns (e.g. ALTER COLUMN POSITION or ALTER COLUMN ... AFTER ...).

This request has existed for many years, and there is already a documented outline and reasoning here:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position

The lack of this feature becomes a real issue in long-term schemas with large and evolving tables. While PostgreSQL assumes column order is cosmetic, in real-world environments the ability to logically group and reorder columns significantly improves maintainability, onboarding, query readability and workflow efficiency — especially when tables grow over several years and may contain dozens or hundreds of fields.

Other major databases provide this functionality (MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle), and PostgreSQL is increasingly used in large SaaS systems and enterprise environments where schema evolution and human readability matter.

I understand this requires internal architectural work (physical vs logical ordering identifiers), but since the request keeps resurfacing, I'm asking whether this can be reconsidered for a future release — or if there is any active discussion, proposal or roadmap direction related to it.

Thanks.