Re: [HACKERS] Feature enhancement request : use of libgda in

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: <jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr>, "Andrew Sullivan" <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, "PostgreSQL general list" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Feature enhancement request : use of libgda in
Date: 2002-02-12 06:29:30
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOMEFKCBAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW / TRIGGER and ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN are real
> priorities for us at pgAdmin team
> (http://pgadmin.postgresql.org) I don't
> know PostgreSQL internals, but it should take a few days/weeks to an
> experienced hacker to add these features.

I can see the utility of CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW, however for me the DROP
COLUMN is way more useful. I can't begin to express how annoying it is to
not be able to drop a column. Sooo annoying...

> So why should I do it myself ? We are a community after all. We are not
> working for money but helping each others. If we are bringing
> pgAdmin to a
> large audience, we need more help from hackers on what we
> consider important :

To a certain extent I agree. I have definitely seen times where I have
spent hours and hours and hours of coding doing something that a core
developer can do in no time, but just isn't inclined to do.

As an aside: did anyone read my post about SET NOT NULL? I am happy to
implement this for 7.3, but no-one answered my questions about if it's in
the parser or not, and where to put the code?

> It should be possible to modify or drop any schema object (with a
> priority on
> views, triggers and columns). This is absolute priority for us.
> Can anyone
> help us? Can we make sure it will be added to 7.3? Thanks in advance.

The other side of this is that you are using a completely free product coded
by volunteers. There's no way you can make sure it will be added - all you
can do is to try to convince a developer to implement it. Again, if I sat
down for a week of coding, I might be able to do it, but someone more
familiar with postgres can probably do it in a day...

Chris

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