Re: [HACKERS] Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: 2000-02-28T02:34:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > > Wow, that almost seems to easy to be true. I never thought that having
> > > tuples of different structures in the table at the same time would be
> > > possible. If so then I don't see a reason why this would be too hard to
> > > do.
> >
> > If the transaction is not committed, I don't think anything actually
> > reads the tuple columns, so you are safe.
> >
> 
> Hmm,tuples of multiple version in a table ?
> This is neither clean nor easy for me.
> There's no such stuff which takes the case into account,AFAIK.
> 
> Seems no one but me object to it. I'm tired of this issue and it's
> painful for me to continue discussion further in my poor English.
> I may be able to provide another implementation on trial and it
> may be easier than only objecting to your proposal.
> Is it OK ?

Sure, whatever you want.  No one is going to start coding anything for a
while.  Seemed like a clean solution with no rename() problems.


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