"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I'm not happy with the way dropped columns are renamed.
Okay... > We could name the fields "________dropped_x" sort of thing perhaps???? In practice that would certainly work, especially if we increase NAMEDATALEN to 128 or so, as has been proposed repeatedly. Alternatively, we could invest a lot of work to make it possible for attname to be NULL, but I don't see the payoff... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html