Re: ALTER TABLE modifications - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Dave Cramer
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE modifications
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Msg-id 1068818345.1620.143.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: ALTER TABLE modifications  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
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Rod,

I tried the current patch on a RC2 release, and I noticed one
undesirable side affect.

Modifying a column  moves it to the end. In high availability situations
this would not be desirable, I would imagine it would break lots of
code.

Dave
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:35, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Rod Taylor kirjutas N, 13.11.2003 kell 16:59:
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> >
> > Can you please suggest a better term to use in place of TRANSFORM?
> > Perhaps UPDATE WITH?
>
> or perhaps USING, based loosely on our use of USING in CREATE INDEX ?
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