AW: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: AW: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
Date: 2000-10-12 11:22:01
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA68796336809A@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > being deleted, then if the system crashes part way through,
> it should be
> > possible to continue after the system is brought up, no?
>
> If it crashes in the middle, some rows have the column
> removed, and some
> do not.

We would need to know where this separation is, but we cannot do a rollback
only rollforward. Thus probably not acceptable.

Andreas

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