| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, PostgreSQL Developers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] drop/rename table and transactions |
| Date: | 1999-11-29 05:13:59 |
| Message-ID: | 199911290513.AAA05829@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> if PostgreSQL could successfully rollback DDL statements sanely (and thus
> diverge from ORACLE). I guess I don't expect that to happen successfully
> until
> something the equivalent of TABLESPACES is implemented and there is a
> disassociation between table names, index names and their filesystem
> counterparts and to be able to "undo" filesystem operations. That, it seems
> to
> me, will be a major undertaking and not going to happen any time soon...
Ingres has table names that don't match on-disk file names, and it is a
pain to administer because you can't figure out what is going on at the
file system level. Table files have names like AAAHFGE.
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