| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping |
| Date: | 2000-01-25 05:08:01 |
| Message-ID: | 200001250508.AAA26401@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> At 09:48 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Maybe that is true. Having phantom column all over the code is going to
> >be a mess, and hardly worth it considering how many developers there are
> >and how many _big_ items still have to be done.
>
> Works for Oracle...I guess Postgres is just an obviously more robust,
> faster, more reliable, and altogether more brilliant RDBMS than this
> loser commercial DB? It's really hard to understand why Postgres has
> had such a poor reputation over the years when faced with such facts,
> isn't it?
>
> >Messing up code for one feature is rarely worth it.
>
> Dropping constraints on a table just because you drop a column is
> just butt-ugly.
We aren't charging 100k either. We do what we can, and spend time where
it is most valuable.
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