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From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0010091727120.625-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> >> What happens if you crash partway through?
> 
> > what happens if you crash partway through a vacuum?
> 
> Nothing.  Vacuum is crash-safe.  ALTER TABLE should be too.

Sorry, that's what I meant ... why should marking a column as 'deleted'
and running a 'vacuum' to clean up the physical table be any less
crash-safe?

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