Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN
Date: 2002-07-05 06:42:25
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0207050240080.19948-100000@cm-lcon-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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Christopher Kings-Lynne dijo:

I have a question:

> 2. What should I do about inheritance? I'm going to implement it, but are
> there issues? It will basically drop the column with the same name in all
> child tables. Is that correct behaviour?

What happens if I drop an inherited column in a child table? Maybe it
works, but what happens when I SELECT the column in the parent table?

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"Granting software the freedom to evolve guarantees only different results,
not better ones." (Zygo Blaxell)

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