README.md

Reorder Table Columns

Reorder PostgreSQL tables to match a target structure

When no columns are entered, the table's current columns are printed and the script returns.
Columns can be any number of arguments. When entered as "col1 col2 col3" the listed columns will be placed at the start of the table. When entered as "col1 col2 ... col3" the first two columns will be placed at the start of the table, and the last column will be placed at the end of the table. When entered as "... col1 col2 col3" all three columns will be placed at the end of the table.

Options

-e, --exclude TEXT   Exclude a column (can be used multiple times).
-h, --host TEXT      The hostname of the Postgres server.
-p, --port TEXT      The port Postgres is listening on.
-d, --database TEXT  The name of the database.
-n, --schema TEXT    The schema of the target table.
-u, --user TEXT      User name.
-p, --password TEXT  Password.
-m, --migrate        Output full migration sql.
-f, --file FILENAME  Write output into a file.
-h, --help           Show this message and exit.

Usage

Say we have the following table, books:

author	year_published	title	id
Mark Z. Danielewski	2000	House of Leaves	1
Harper Lee	1960	To Kill a Mockingbird	2
Douglas Adams	1979	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	3

We want to move the id column to the start and the year_published column to the end. Simply run the following to get the query that will rearrange the table for you:

./reorder.py books id ... year_published

To run the sql, you can copy and paste it into a query, pipe it directly into the psql command, or save it to a file with the --file argument. Running the sql will result in the following table:

id	author	title	year_published
1	Mark Z. Danielewski	House of Leaves	2000
2	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird	1960
3	Douglas Adams	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	1979

Notes

Special thanks to JiCiT for adding windows support and username/password options