Re: Patch by request at pgcon

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, "<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-19T17:49:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@commandprompt.com) wrote:
> Excerpts from Greg Stark's message of jue may 19 12:11:29 -0400 2011:
> > Adding such a feature would be pretty trivial, attached is a patch.
> 
> Interesting, but not so trivial I think -- I mean if you're doing this I
> think you should add a column with the nominal position of the column in
> the table, so that it enables you to find it quickly in the other sort
> order.

Afraid that I have to disagree..  The attnum (or, really, worse, since
you'd have to actually count/number the non-dropped columns only..)
doesn't strike me as being useful to the user for much of anything,
especially since we don't have the number anywhere in the default
listing.

	Thanks,

		Stephen