Is it possible to change the natural order of columns in Postgres 8.1?
I know that you shouldn\'t rely on column order - it\'s not essential to what I am do
I have asked that question in pgsql-admin in 2007. Tom Lane himself declared it practically unfeasible to change the order in the catalogs.
Clarification: this applies for users with the present tools. Does not mean, it could not be implemented. IMO, it should be.
Still true for Postgres 12.