Re: [HACKERS] Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

> > > Wow, that almost seems to easy to be true. I never thought that having
> > > tuples of different structures in the table at the same time would be
> > > possible. If so then I don't see a reason why this would be too hard to
> > > do.
> >
> > If the transaction is not committed, I don't think anything actually
> > reads the tuple columns, so you are safe.
> >
>
> Hmm,tuples of multiple version in a table ?
> This is neither clean nor easy for me.
> There's no such stuff which takes the case into account,AFAIK.
>
> Seems no one but me object to it. I'm tired of this issue and it's
> painful for me to continue discussion further in my poor English.
> I may be able to provide another implementation on trial and it
> may be easier than only objecting to your proposal.
> Is it OK ?

Sure, whatever you want. No one is going to start coding anything for a
while. Seemed like a clean solution with no rename() problems.

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