Hi Dave,
I believe,with the ALTER command,we plan to give the user power to modify ordering . Don't we? Atri From: Dave Page [mailto:dp...@pgadmin.org] Sent: 18 March 2012 00:46 To: Atri Sharma Cc: Alvaro Herrera; Pg Hackers Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012 On Saturday, March 17, 2012, Atri Sharma <atri.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alvaro, > Thanks for going through my description. > > > I was going through the posts,when I realised that if we give each client the flexibility of defining his/her own order with complete control,that would be probably the right way(IMHO). > > I mean,if the user sees,not the physical implementation,but a customizable interface instead,which is mapped to the physical implementation,then,we can solve to some extent,the problem of logical/physical decoupling. Anything done in the client bar changing the column it orders on (which ideally should be avoided too if practical) is going to lead to pain and suffering as some will do it, some won't, and a few might get it wrong. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
