Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-02-22T14:15:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> >    * -Add BIT, BIT VARYING
> 
> This is currently suffering from BIT rot in contrib. Not really usable.
> And we can't squeeze it in until the bootstrap scanner recognizes tokens
> with spaces in it. (Does it?)

Aw man, I promised to put that into the main tree.  Is it not usable? 
Spaces?

> 
> >    * -Add ALTER TABLE DROP/ALTER COLUMN feature(Peter E)
> 
> Since there seems to be some confusion here: What currently exists all
> done is ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN (which allows you to set and drop
> defaults). What does not exist is DROP COLUMN and ADD/DROP CONTRAINT in
> its full glory.
> 
> 
> If someone cares for accuracy, I also did these:
> 
> >    * -pg_dump should preserve primary key information
> >    * -Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs
> >    * -Allow psql \copy to allow delimiters
> >    * -Allow psql to print nulls as distinct from "" [null]
> >    * -Make configure --enable-debug add -g on compile line
> >    * -Pre-generate lex and yacc output so not required for install
> >    * -Make Absolutetime/Relativetime int4 because time_t can be int8 on some ports
> >    * -Make type equivalency apply to aggregates

TODO updated.

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