Re: Creating a zero-column table

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Creating a zero-column table
Date: 2002-12-13 03:10:00
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.0.20021213140731.02b43010@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 04:08 PM 12/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Should we remove this error check, thereby effectively making
>zero-column tables first-class citizens?

It's a bit daft, but I suspect it's the way to go. There has to be a
non-zero chance that a future version of pg_dump may want to add attributes
to tables in a piecemeal fashion (cyclic FKs? Yuk).

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