On Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:02:01 AM UTC-5, Cliff wrote: > > > > insert prompts the creation of the 'name' column in the 'person' table > > (type is inferred based on the data, and altered if necessary based on > > subsequent inserts) > > Wow. I would not be comfortable with this. >
My understanding is that this is only intended for development. Eventually you figure out what the schema should be and "freeze" it, so no such alterations happen in production. Anthony