Re: an already existing alter table drop column ?!?!?!

From: "Gowey, Geoffrey" <ggowey(at)rxhope(dot)com>
To: "'Hiroshi Inoue'" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: "Gowey, Geoffrey" <ggowey(at)rxhope(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: an already existing alter table drop column ?!?!?!
Date: 2001-09-24 16:30:33
Message-ID: E15F4B031E17D5118B18009027F67927DAF9@SERVER
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Does this mean that the code is or isn't usable?

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp]
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 11:02 PM
To: Stephan Szabo
Cc: Gowey, Geoffrey; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] an already existing alter table drop column ?!?!?!

Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Gowey, Geoffrey wrote:
>
> > While looking through the code I found an already existing alter table
drop
> > column in src/backend/parser/gram.y. However, when I try to run it in
psql
> > it comes back with a not implemented. Was the left hand not talking to
the
> > right hand when this was coded or is there more to this?
>
> IIRC, it was not enabled pending further discussion of the behavior.

As to 'DROP COLUMN', I neglected to remove _DROP_COLUMN_HACK__
stuff which has no meaing now sorry. I would remove it after
the 7.2 release.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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