RE: AW: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, "Zeugswetter Andreas SB" <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: RE: AW: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
Date: 2000-10-16 14:50:32
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20001016075032.01041c48@mail.pacifier.com
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At 10:56 PM 10/15/00 +0900, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:

>When I used Oracle,I saw neither option of DROP COLUMN
>feature. It seems to tell us that the implementation isn't
>that easy. It may not be a bad choise to give up DROP
>COLUMN feature forever.

Both options are in Oracle now, as proudly documented in their
freely accessible on-line documentation. It is very possible
they didn't implement it until version 8, i.e. until a couple of years
ago.

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