| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping |
| Date: | 2000-01-25 05:00:56 |
| Message-ID: | 200001250500.AAA26167@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Because you want to have multiple versions of a table with the same name
> > and table oid. We don't have to have the oid equal the oid of the
> > table. Just use any oid to append to the table name for versioning.
>
> That'd do for versioning, but what about a plain table-renaming
> operation? We aren't making a new file in that case, and we still
> want to avoid rename().
I see. Hard to see how the advantage of fixing that would be worth
losing table names as files.
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