Re: Support edit order of the fields in table - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Support edit order of the fields in table
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Msg-id 7aa574aa39c1f2dc23bb1c8b776e64f5eeb40e53.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Support edit order of the fields in table  (Chang Wei 昌維 <changwei1006@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 00:31 +0800, Chang Wei 昌維 wrote:
> Hi Postgres community: I think support editing order of the fields in
> table is a useful feature. I have known that the order of fields will
> effect the data structure of rows data, but I think we could add a extra
> information to identify the display order of fields but not effect the
> rows data, and the order identification is only used to display in order
> while execute `SELECT * FROM [table_name]` and display the table
> structure on GUI tools like pgAdmin.
>
> Now, we must create a new view and define the order of fields if we need
> to display the fields of  table in a order of our demand, it is not a
> good way.

But PostgreSQL tables are not spreadsheets.  When, except in the display of
the result of interactive queries, would the order matter?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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