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Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-01-23T21:48:10Z
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> > Usually some one cleans me up. :-)  Even with discussion, my stuff is
> > not 100%.
> > 
> > I did code to extend the number of index columns >8, but broke the
> > system in several ways.  Tom Lane fixed it for me.  I think I even
> > committed it with a broken initdb, but figured out how to disable it
> > while Tom and I worked on it.
> > 
> > Yes, but even my feature additions have problems.  :-)
> 
> There is a key factor involved in all of this ... how many of these
> "bugs" were things that ppl would think about before it is
> implemented?  

No idea.  I just know I didn't think of them.

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