Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns
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Msg-id 200001241650.LAA18853@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns  (Adriaan Joubert <a.joubert@albourne.com>)
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> As a user let me just say that I have been waiting for all the
> 'ALTER TABLE..' commands for a long time (changing constraints would be great
> too!) and it has been mentioned many times that one should not use oids in
> application code. The way I do it at the moment is to copy the table, so I
> think all users are used to losing their oids when remocing a column from a
> table. So while it is certainly better to keep the oids, Peter's code is a
> big improvement on the current situation.
> 

What happens if the dropped column is part of an index?  Just curious.

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