Re: AW: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: "Don Baccus" <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, "Zeugswetter Andreas SB" <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
Date: 2000-10-15 15:57:32
Message-ID: 4908.971625452@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> My trial implementation using physical/logical attribute numbers
> isn't so clean as I expected. I'm inclined to restrict my change to
> fix the TODO
> * ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to inherited table put column in wrong place
> though it would also introduce a backward compatibility.

I'm confused --- how will that make things any simpler or cleaner?
You still need physical/logical column numbering distinction in order
to fix inherited ADD COLUMN, don't you?

regards, tom lane

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