Re: delete columns from table!

Another way SELECT INTO a new table, omitting the column you want to delete.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Welche" <prlw1(at)newn(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: "Fariba Noorbakhsh" <fNoorbakhsh(at)tecways(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] delete columns from table!

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:42:09PM +0200, Fariba Noorbakhsh wrote:
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > Do you know how I can drop(delete) a column from a table?! Just a
column. I don't
> > think you can do it with Alter table
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Fariba
>
> According to the TODO list:
>
> COMMANDS
> ...
> * ALTER
> ...
> o Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature [drop]
>
>
> so the way forward may be to
> pg_dump -t your_table -D your_database > table.txt
> and have fun editing out all reference to said column from table.txt. Then
> drop the table and reload from table.txt. YMMV..
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
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