EA2 - strange column order in "Columns" tab

Question

Hi,
when I click on a table in the left panel, I'd expect the columns in the "Columns" tab appear in the same order as the table has been defined (i.e. ordered by column id). But instead the columns are ordered by primary key. Of course I can doubleclick the column id heading to get the correct order, but when I switch to another table the columns are again sorted by primary key.
If I didn't miss a preference, I'd suggest to change this behaviour to column id sorting by default.

Answer 1

Sorry I missed that. Here's the query we use on that:
with pri_cols as ( SELECT cols.column_name column_name, cols.position column_position
                                                       FROM all_constraints cons, all_cons_columns cols
                                                       WHERE cons.constraint_type = 'P'
                                                       AND cons.constraint_name = cols.constraint_name
                                                       AND cons.owner = cols.owner
                                                       and cols.table_name = :OBJECT_NAME
                                                       and cons.owner = :OBJECT_OWNER
                                                       ORDER BY cols.table_name, cols.position )
select c.column_name, case when data_type = 'CHAR' then data_type||'('||c.char_length||decode(char_used,'B',' BYTE','C',' CHAR',null)||')'
                                   when data_type = 'VARCHAR' then data_type||'('||c.char_length||decode(char_used,'B',' BYTE','C',' CHAR',null)||')'
                                   when data_type = 'VARCHAR2' then data_type||'('||c.char_length||decode(char_used,'B',' BYTE','C',' CHAR',null)||')'
                                   when data_type = 'NCHAR' then data_type||'('||c.char_length||decode(char_used,'B',' BYTE','C',' CHAR',null)||')'
                                   when data_type = 'NUMBER' then
                                             case when c.data_precision is null then 'NUMBER'
                                             else data_type||'('||c.data_precision||','||c.data_SCALE||')' end
                                   when data_type = 'NVARCHAR' then data_type||'('||c.char_length||decode(char_used,'B',' BYTE','C',' CHAR',null)||')'
                                   when data_type = 'NVARCHAR2' then data_type||'('||c.char_length||decode(char_used,'B',' BYTE','C',' CHAR',null)||')'
                                   else data_type end data_type,
decode(nullable,'Y','Yes','No') nullable,
c.DATA_DEFAULT,column_id, sub.column_position pk,com.comments     
from sys.all_tab_Columns c,
sys.all_col_comments com,
pri_cols sub
where c.column_name = sub.column_name(+)
and c.owner = :OBJECT_OWNER
and c.table_name = :OBJECT_NAME
and c.table_name = com.table_name
and c.owner = com.owner
and c.column_name = com.column_name     
order by sub.column_position nulls last,column_id
It's supposed to place the pk columns in order followed by the other columns by column_id.