Re: Re: Re: ALTER DROP COLUMN - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Re: Re: ALTER DROP COLUMN
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0102131129050.90043-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: Re: ALTER DROP COLUMN  (Fred Yankowski <fred@ontosys.com>)
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Fred Yankowski wrote:

> Or we can improve our tools so that changes aren't so painful to
> undertake.  PostgreSQL is a damn fine piece of work, and there are
> ways that it too could evolve to make it an even more powerful tool
> for doing what our customers need done, rather than just what is
> convenient for us to do.

There have been some questions about how to best do a drop column
which is a big reason there isn't a final implementation yet
(although there is some implementation in the code I believe
ifdefed out with _DROP_COLUMN_HACK__).  There are discussions about
this on -hackers a while back (sorry don't remember when).


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