RE: [HACKERS] Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>

From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-02-29T05:13:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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[snip]

> Hiroshi ...
>
> 	Bruce's comment was just an observation ... if it can be done
> cleanly, I would love to see a version that didn't involve 2x the disk
> space ... I don't believe that a trial would be useless, I think that
> Bruce's only concern/warning is that the amount of code modifications that
> would have to be made in order to accomplish this *might* be larger then
> the benefit resulting in doing it this way.
>
> 	If you feel that this can be done more efficiently, *please*
> proceed with the trial ...
>

OK,I may be able to provide a trial patch in a week or so if I'm lucky.
How to commit the patch ?
With #ifdef ?

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp