a weird update requirement

In the data dictionary table ACCESSIBLE_COLUMNS there is an entity called COLUMN_ID which identifies a column's position within the table.

Is there any way this position identifier can be used rather than the column name for updates of a table? For example, given table TEST and column ALPHA where ALPHA has a column_id of 4, I need to write something like

	UPDATE TEST
	SET 4 = 'XXX';

This does not work as written (obviously). Received on Thu Apr 29 1993 - 23:19:55 CEST