Re: DROP COLUMN

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Rod Taylor" <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DROP COLUMN
Date: 2002-07-16 05:03:14
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOCECMCDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> > In fact, looking at it logically...if all the commands currently are
> > required to check that they're not modifiying a system column,
> then why not
> > add the requirement that they must also not modify dropped
> columns? I can
> > do a careful doc search and try to make sure I've touched everything...
>
> Makes sense. Of course, we could make a syscache that didn't return
> system columns either.

Actually - are you certain that every command uses a SearchSysCache and not
some other weirdness? If we have to do the odd exception, then maybe we
should do them all as 'exceptions'?

Chris

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