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Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)

Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@iki.fi>

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From: Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@iki.fi>
To: Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-12T09:43:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
> I cannot think of any reason why changing column order should be
> implemented in Postgres. Seems like a waste of time/more code bloat for
> something which is strictly asthetic.

What about copy? AFAIK, copy doesn't allow column names being specified,
so it's not purely aesthetic...