| From: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
| Cc: | Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE modifications |
| Date: | 2003-11-14 13:59:05 |
| Message-ID: | 1068818345.1620.143.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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Rod,
I tried the current patch on a RC2 release, and I noticed one
undesirable side affect.
Modifying a column moves it to the end. In high availability situations
this would not be desirable, I would imagine it would break lots of
code.
Dave
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:35, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Rod Taylor kirjutas N, 13.11.2003 kell 16:59:
>
> >
> > Can you please suggest a better term to use in place of TRANSFORM?
> > Perhaps UPDATE WITH?
>
> or perhaps USING, based loosely on our use of USING in CREATE INDEX ?
>
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> Hannu
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