| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE ... REPLACE WITH |
| Date: | 2010-12-14 19:48:00 |
| Message-ID: | 1292356080.2737.4617.camel@ebony |
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On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 11:34 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> As for the utility of this command: there is no question that I would
> use it. I'm not sure I like the syntax (I'd prefer REPLACE TABLE ____
> WITH _____), but that's painting the bike shed.
REPLACE TABLE ying WITH yang
is probably easier to implement than hacking at the ALTER TABLE code
mountain.
> While the command may
> appear frivolous and unnecessary syntactical ornamentation to some, I
> have to say that doing the "table doesy-doe" which this command
> addresses is something I have written scripts for on at least 50% of
> my professional clients. It keeps coming up.
Yeh.
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