Re: 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: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
Date: 2000-10-05 19:28:23
Message-ID: 8006.970774103@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> Seems some people expect the implementation in 7.1.
> (recent [GENERAL} drop column?)
> I could commit my local branch if people don't mind
> backward incompatibility.

I've lost track --- is this different from the _DROP_COLUMN_HACK__
code that's already in CVS? I really really didn't like that
implementation :-(, but I forget what other methods were being
discussed.

> P.S. I've noticed that get_rte_attribute_name() seems to
> break my implementation. I'm not sure if I could solve it.

That would be a problem --- rule dumping depends on that code to
produce correct aliases, so making it work is not optional.

regards, tom lane

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