On 24 Dec 2015 at 15:26, Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante at gmail.com> 
wrote: 

> want a more versatile alter table for convenience. However, I don't
> know if alter table is used at all in production anywhere (why would
> it be? the column names and ordering should not be part of the data).

If I distribute an app with a certain schema, and later make a new version with 
added features that needs more columns in the database, I have to detect the 
user's version, and run an extra function that updates the schema. If the user 
skipped a few versions, several such functions may run. Generally this does not 
affect things particularly, but I suppose after a few versions the order of the 
columns could become sub-optimal.

--
Cheers  --  Tim

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