Re: DROP COLUMN

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "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: 2002-07-17 06:29:50
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOCEDDCDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> > But those (few) apps that still need intimate knowledge about postrges'
> > internals will always have to query the original system _tables_.
> >
> > Also, as we have nothing like Oracles ROWNR, I think it will be quite
> > hard to have colnums without gaps in the system views,
>
> Agreed. However do we have to give up all views which omit
> dropped columns ?

What's Oracle's ROWNR?

Chris

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