Re: More DROP COLUMN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: More DROP COLUMN
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Msg-id 7656.1026705431@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to More DROP COLUMN  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: More DROP COLUMN  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> However, I'm not happy with the way dropped columns are renamed.

Okay...

> We could name the fields "________dropped_x" sort of thing perhaps????

In practice that would certainly work, especially if we increase
NAMEDATALEN to 128 or so, as has been proposed repeatedly.

Alternatively, we could invest a lot of work to make it possible for
attname to be NULL, but I don't see the payoff...
        regards, tom lane


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