| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns |
| Date: | 2000-01-24 17:33:34 |
| Message-ID: | 200001241733.MAA21868@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> My idea is as follows.
>
> 1)add a visibile/invisible flag to pg_attribute
> 2)DROP COLUMN marks the column as invisible
> 3)user interface ignores the columns which are marked invisible
> 4)heap_formtuple() etc treats the column as NULL internally
>
Yes, but how much code is that going to hit? Seems it would be a lot.
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