On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: > > > BTW, one main consideration is that all the postgres admin apps will now > > need to support ORDER BY attlognum for 7.5+. > > But that is only really important if they've also used the ALTER TABLE > RESHUFFLE COLUMNS feature. So if they make one alteration for 7.5, they > need to do another. That seems fair.
The ability to reshuffle and to get the correct ordering in a client app are separate unless we're going to assume that all access goes through that particular client. If one user uses psql and shuffles them, a second user using fooclient may not see the new ordering. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
