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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping
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Msg-id 200001250435.XAA25125@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> The debugging and administrative convenience of using table names as
> filenames is exactly why we've resisted this for so long.  But I am
> starting to think that we have to give that up.  It's nice, but
> having robust DDL commands is nicer.

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.

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