Re: Nonrecursive ALTER TABLE ADD/RENAME COLUMN is wrong

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Nonrecursive ALTER TABLE ADD/RENAME COLUMN is wrong
Date: 2002-06-25 06:39:48
Message-ID: 018701c21c13$1a8bef90$0200a8c0@SOL
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> The second seems more user-friendly but also seems to violate the
> principle of least surprise. Anyone have an opinion about what to do?

Sounds like a logical argument, given normal OO behaviour.

Hope it inspires someone to implement DROP COLUMN :)

Chris

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