From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: DROP COLUMN |
Date: | 2002-07-16 05:04:24 |
Message-ID: | 200207160504.g6G54Oc15845@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > In fact, looking at it logically...if all the commands currently are
> > > required to check that they're not modifiying a system column,
> > then why not
> > > add the requirement that they must also not modify dropped
> > columns? I can
> > > do a careful doc search and try to make sure I've touched everything...
> >
> > Makes sense. Of course, we could make a syscache that didn't return
> > system columns either.
>
> Actually - are you certain that every command uses a SearchSysCache and not
> some other weirdness? If we have to do the odd exception, then maybe we
> should do them all as 'exceptions'?
I actually don't know. I know all the table name lookups do use
syscache or temp tables wouldn't have worked. ;-)
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