Is it possible to change the natural order of columns in Postgres?

Question

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

Answer 1

I have asked that question in pgsql-admin in 2007. Tom Lane himself declared it practically unfeasible to change the order in the catalogs.

• http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-06/msg00037.php

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.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, no, it's not. Column order is entirely up to Postgres.