> > etc. I put that extra number after dropped and not at the end
> so prevent it
> > being off the end of a 32 character name.
> >
> > > Alternatively, we could invest a lot of work to make it possible for
> > > attname to be NULL, but I don't see the payoff...
> >
> > Yeah, I think a weird name should be good enough...
>
> perhaps starting it with spaces instead of _ would make it even harder
> to write by accident, so tha name could be
> " dropped 0000000001"
>
> or to make it even more self documenting store the drop time,
> " col001 dropped@020715.101427"
> --------------------------------
Well, are there characters that are illegal in column names that I could
use? I did a quick check and couldn't find any!
Chris
