On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > Can it be that I'm the only one to have hit this problem that dropped
> > columns are still included in rowtypes?
>
> No, you're not. This is a known deficiency. AFAIR no one has come up
> with a workable solution yet.
Hmmmm...I don't remember seeing any messages about that. Sorry for the noise
[again].
I haven't looked at the code so I presume from that comment it's not as simple
as I thought it might be, i.e. there isn't a loop somewhere constructing a
tupleDesc where the isdropped flag can ge tested.
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Nigel J. Andrews