On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:59:05AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote: > I tried the current patch on a RC2 release, and I noticed one > undesirable side affect. > > Modifying a column moves it to the end. In high availability situations > this would not be desirable, I would imagine it would break lots of > code.
This is expected. Doing otherwise would incur into a much bigger performance hit. Anyway, IMHO no code should use SELECT * in any case, which is the only scenario where one would expect physical column order to matter, isn't it? -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "La primera ley de las demostraciones en vivo es: no trate de usar el sistema. Escriba un guión que no toque nada para no causar daños." (Jakob Nielsen) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
