Re: [HACKERS] Requirement for pgAdmin browser.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: 15 December 2001 18:06
> To: jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr
> Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [CYGWIN] Requirement for pgAdmin browser.
>
> > PostgreSQL does not allow table modification. The community
> have been
> > waiting
> > for an ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN and type PROMOTION /
> DEMOTION, for a long
> > time. Same as for Views and triggers : it is impossible to
> alter them... The
> > politics of PostgreSQL is to offer advanced features before
> basic ones.
> >
> > Is anyone working seriously on those issues?
>
> Agreed. We couldn't decide the best way to do it, so we did
> nothing. I have hopes for 7.3.

This is starting to become an issue for me. Personally I can live without
these features (though I'd rather not) because I know how to do these things
manually, however many pgAdmin users cannot (without help/pointing in the
right direction). Since I rewrote pgAdmin as pgAdmin II, the program is that
much more stable and easy to use (blowing my own trumpet somewhat!!) that
probably the most common support question I get asked these days is 'how do
I drop a column?'.

I don't want to try to pressure the developers on this as I know what that's
like myself, but this issue is imho *really* beginning to hold PostgreSQL
back from being less of a hackers database and more commonly used like M$
SQL (which though evil _is_ easy to use :-) ).

Regards, Dave.