Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN
Date: 2002-07-04 06:38:52
Message-ID: 1009.1025764732@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> What happens if someone drops ALL the columns in a table?

Good point. Ideally we should allow that, but in practice I suspect
there are many places that will blow up on zero-length tuples.
Rejecting the situation might be the better part of valor ... anyway
I'm not excited about spending a lot of time searching for such bugs.

regards, tom lane

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