Re: [PATCHES] Cascaded Column Drop

On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> > Leaving a zero-width table would be best, even if its not so useful. I
> > don't like rejecting a CASCADE as it kinda defeats the purpose of having
> > CASCADE.
>
> I did something about this --- as of CVS tip, you can do
>
> regression=# create table foo (f1 int);
> CREATE TABLE
> regression=# alter table foo drop column f1;
> ALTER TABLE
> regression=# select * from foo;

Which of course would dump as 'create table foo ();'.

I don't think relcache would like a table without any columns, which is
why the above is rejected.

Anyway, should pg_dump ignore the table entirely? Or do we try to allow
create table () without any attributes?

--
Rod Taylor