Re: AW: AW: AW: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

2000-10-13 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote: > The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > okay, but, again based on my impression of what Tom has stated, and > > previous conversations on this topic, the key problem is what happens if I > > drop a column and a later date decide add a new column of

Re: AW: AW: AW: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

2000-10-13 Thread Tom Lane
The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > okay, but, again based on my impression of what Tom has stated, and > previous conversations on this topic, the key problem is what happens if I > drop a column and a later date decide add a new column of the same name, > what happens? I'm not very

Re: AW: AW: AW: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

2000-10-13 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote: > > > Hiroshi's patch would make for a good starting point by bringing in the > > ability to do the DROP COLUMN feature, as I understand, without the > > rollback capability, > > No Hiroshi's patch is rollback enabled, simply because all it doe