Re: More DROP COLUMN

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: More DROP COLUMN
Date: 2002-07-15 03:57:11
Message-ID: 7656.1026705431@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> However, I'm not happy with the way dropped columns are renamed.

Okay...

> We could name the fields "________dropped_x" sort of thing perhaps????

In practice that would certainly work, especially if we increase
NAMEDATALEN to 128 or so, as has been proposed repeatedly.

Alternatively, we could invest a lot of work to make it possible for
attname to be NULL, but I don't see the payoff...

regards, tom lane

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Curt Sampson 2002-07-15 04:01:34 Re: More DROP COLUMN
Previous Message Christopher Kings-Lynne 2002-07-15 03:45:44 More DROP COLUMN