Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping
Date
Msg-id 11843.948775588@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Because you want to have multiple versions of a table with the same name
> and table oid.  We don't have to have the oid equal the oid of the
> table.  Just use any oid to append to the table name for versioning.

That'd do for versioning, but what about a plain table-renaming
operation?  We aren't making a new file in that case, and we still
want to avoid rename().
        regards, tom lane


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