Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns
Date: 2000-01-24 20:02:20
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000124120220.01067490@mail.pacifier.com
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At 03:44 PM 1/24/00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>Oh, there is a second drawback to it though ...
>
>DROP COLUMN name
>ADD COLUMN name <of a different type>
>
>Then what? :(

I don't understand...the idea is to make the old column name
invisible, and therefore "add column" won't see it either.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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