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Subject: RE: Reordering the fields in a table
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 09:32:54 -0500
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MS SQL Server allows this too.  I do it all the time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Kellerer <shammat@gmx.net>=20
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 1:09 AM
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Reordering the fields in a table

Wells Oliver schrieb am 17.04.2021 um 00:28:
> If it helps the cause, I would love this too, in addition to having=20
> the ability to ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN with the ability to specify=20
> where in the column order. This ends up being a bigger frustration for =

> a lot of people than it should be, and maybe it's a touch of OCD, but=20
> most RDBMS packages allow this

"Most" seems a bit of a stretch.
To my knowledge it's only supported in MySQL, Firebird and Informix.

You can't do this in Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, Ingres, Vertica =
or SAP Hana.