Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping
Date: 2000-01-25 04:00:04
Message-ID: 11596.948772804@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> New file name will not be just oid. Too hard to administer.

But if it contains the table name, you still have the problem we'd
like to avoid: renaming the file(s) is a critical part of committing
a table-renaming transaction.

The debugging and administrative convenience of using table names as
filenames is exactly why we've resisted this for so long. But I am
starting to think that we have to give that up. It's nice, but
having robust DDL commands is nicer.

regards, tom lane

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