> > And I also see a lot of unhappiness from users of system tables when
> > column numbers all over the system tables would not be logical column > > positions any more. > > Right now the fact that attnum presents the logical order but > not the logical position is a problem for the JDBC driver. > In the presence of dropped columns there is no easy way to > get from a pg_attribute entry to logical position. I would > hope that a new logical position column would reflect the > actual position and solve this problem. I agree, I haven't thought of drop column :-( Drop column should have relabeled attnum. Since it was not done then, my comments are probably moot. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
