Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.
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Msg-id 200210121437.g9CEbWm15079@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera kirjutas L, 12.10.2002 kell 04:16:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:08:18PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > 
> > > And it really is a minor matter of convenience. I end up dropping and 
> > > recreating all my tables a lot in the early stages of development, which is 
> > > mildly annoying. Certainly not as bad, I suppose, as if you're led to believe 
> > > that a feature does something safely, and it kills all your data.
> > 
> > Now that ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is implemented, there probably isn't
> > any more the need to do such frequent drop/create of tables.
> 
> Did attlognum's (for changing column order) get implemented for 7.2 ?

No, changing column order isn't even on the TODO list.

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