On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 07:52 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > I really don't think that we can accept under any circumstances a > situation where something ... breaks:
Yes, I've accepted that, in response to Peter earlier today. > If you really want an interim solution, what about a builtin function > that would explicitly mutate the definition and table contents (if any) > along the lines you want? (assuming that's lots less work than just > doing the whole thing right to start with). Or even one which just > *displayed* the optimal order might be sufficient assistance to DBAs who > want to take advantage of this. I think the only interim solution now is to put functionality into PgAdmin et al to optimize the column order. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings