Re: Bug #759: 7.3beta1 DROP COLUMN DEPENDENCY PROBLEM

Is this a TODO item or something for beta2?

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Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 19:30, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca> writes:
> > > The big difference is that the INNER JOIN code needs to drop one of the
> > > colb's coming up with a virtual relation cola, colb, colc; where the
> > > other doesn't have such a renaming scheme.
> >
> > On reflection I think it might be possible to make this work the way
> > Tim wants: I think it would be okay for the dependency-extracter code
> > to ignore the Var lists that are attached to join RTEs. Needs more
> > thought though, and I don't plan to think about it before Monday;
> > I'm taking the weekend off ...
>
> Your right. The view continues to function perfectly fine with the
> column dropped (did a delete from pg_depend to allow it).
>
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