Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN

From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN
Date: 2002-07-06 15:43:26
Message-ID: EKEJJICOHDIEMGPNIFIJKELOIEAA.Inoue@tpf.co.jp
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
>
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > OK, I've been looking at Hiroshi's implementation. It's basically
> > semantically equivalent to mine from what I can see so far. The only
> > difference really is in how the dropped columns are marked.
>
> True enough, but that's not a trivial difference. The problem with
> Hiroshi's implementation is that there's no longer a close tie between
> pg_attribute.attnum and physical positions of datums in tuples. I think
> that that's going to affect a lot of low-level code, and that he hasn't
> found all of it.

Please don't propagate an unfair valuation without any verification.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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