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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bright ideas required for drop column...
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In response to Bright ideas required for drop column...  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Does anyone know how I should modify MergeAttributes to support dropped
> columns?

I think you could get away with just ignoring dropped columns from the
parent.  There's no assumption that column numbers are the same in
parent and child.
        regards, tom lane

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