| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping |
| Date: | 2000-01-23 22:03:55 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.20000123140355.0104dc60@mail.pacifier.com |
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At 12:04 AM 1/24/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>It could possibly be done by marking the column deleted and doing the
>compression/renumbering during vacuum , or by locking the table and
>compressing each page in-place if space is a concern or maybe several
>other ways.
>The existence of several ways to do it should not discourage people
>from actually adding the drop column feature to postgres
It should provide even more encouragement to discuss the proposed
implementation *first*.
IMHO, again.
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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