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. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "We are who we choose to be", sang the goldfinch when the sun is high (Sandman)