Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
To: Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-hackers@empires.org>
Cc: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-12T02:16:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:08:18PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:

> And it really is a minor matter of convenience. I end up dropping and 
> recreating all my tables a lot in the early stages of development, which is 
> mildly annoying. Certainly not as bad, I suppose, as if you're led to believe 
> that a feature does something safely, and it kills all your data.

Now that ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is implemented, there probably isn't
any more the need to do such frequent drop/create of tables.

And things just keep getting better and better.  This is really amazing.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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