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Re: Nonrecursive ALTER TABLE ADD/RENAME COLUMN is wrong - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Nonrecursive ALTER TABLE ADD/RENAME COLUMN is wrong
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In response to Nonrecursive ALTER TABLE ADD/RENAME COLUMN is wrong  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> The second seems more user-friendly but also seems to violate the
> principle of least surprise.  Anyone have an opinion about what to do?

Sounds like a logical argument, given normal OO behaviour.

Hope it inspires someone to implement DROP COLUMN :)

Chris

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