Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

> At 09:48 PM 1/24/00 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >Maybe that is true.  Having phantom column all over the code is going to
> >be a mess, and hardly worth it considering how many developers there are
> >and how many _big_ items still have to be done.
> 
> Works for Oracle...I guess Postgres is just an obviously more robust,
> faster, more reliable, and altogether more brilliant RDBMS than this
> loser commercial DB?  It's really hard to understand why Postgres has
> had such a poor reputation over the years when faced with such facts,
> isn't it?
> 
> >Messing up code for one feature is rarely worth it.
> 
> Dropping constraints on a table just because you drop a column is
> just butt-ugly.

We aren't charging 100k either.  We do what we can, and spend time where
it is most valuable.

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