The order of the columns in your table creation statements is irrelevant to the order of how the columns return to you in your queries.

Your select statement specified the order of your result columns in your result set. Your visualization tools should have the option to reorder the displayed columns to your liking or need.

Thanks. I checked and dbeaver can indeed store columns ordering as a filtered view. Seems like a bit overcomplicated to me but I guess I've been spoiled with mysql in which the ordering is trivial.

visual example : https://www.w3resource.com/sql-exercises/sql-retrieve-exerci...

verbal examples : discussion on various ways to reorder columns : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1605144/how-to-change-co...

Reviewing database normal forms might be helpful/useful. [1]

Non-postgress, old school method:

1) Dump table data to ascii delimited file.

2) Use awk/gawk to re-arrange columns in ascii delimited file.

3) drop old data table.

4) create new data table to upload the awk/gawk data generated in #2.

5) upload awk/gawk data from #2.

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[1] : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/first-normal-form-1nf/?ref=lbp

Thanks, we could definitely start from this

resources:

awk: the power and promis of a 40 yr old language (2021) : https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-l...

Gawk: Effective AWK programming https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/

gawk-psql : pgsql extension of GNU awk : https://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net/pgsql/pgsql.html

gawkextlib : http://shouce.jb51.net/gawk/gawkextlib.html

gawk libraries for XML, PostgreSQL : https://osdn.net/projects/sfnet_gawkextlib/

psql : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/psql.htm

postgresql copy from program : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62254888/using-awk-and-p...

user-defined modules to postgres : https://www.highgo.ca/2019/10/01/a-guide-to-create-user-defi...

Alternate interpretation of explaination:

https://www.quackit.com/sql/tutorial/sql_order_by.cfm

https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/sqlserver/orderby

https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/sqlserver/orderby