Simon Riggs wrote: >>> I propose that at CREATE TABLE time, the column ordering is re-ordered >>> so that the table columns are packed more efficiently. This would be a >>> physical re-ordering, so that SELECT * and COPY without explicit column >>> definitions would differ from the original CREATE TABLE statement.
How about INSERTs without column names? Wouldn't that also cease to work? In particular, 'pg_dump --format=plain --inserts' would produce unusable output unless --attribute-inserts is also given, right? Yours, Laurenz Albe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org