Re: logical column ordering

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Arthur Silva <arthurprs(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: logical column ordering
Date: 2015-02-27 19:57:54
Message-ID: 20150227195753.GT29780@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Arthur Silva (arthurprs(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Sorry to intrude, I've been following this post and I was wondering if it
> would allow (in the currently planed form or in the future) a wider set of
> non-rewriting DDLs to Postgres. For example, drop a column without
> rewriting the table.

Uh, we already support that. Ditto for add column (but you have to add
it with all NULL values; you can't add it with a default value).

Thanks,

Stephen

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