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RE: AW: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

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From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, "Zeugswetter Andreas SB" <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>, "'Tom Lane'" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-10-16T14:50:32Z
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At 10:56 PM 10/15/00 +0900, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:

>When I used Oracle,I saw neither option of DROP COLUMN
>feature. It seems to tell us that the implementation isn't 
>that easy. It may not be a bad choise to give up DROP
>COLUMN feature forever.

Both options are in Oracle now, as proudly documented in their
freely accessible on-line documentation.  It is very possible
they didn't implement it until version 8, i.e. until a couple of years
ago.



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