Re: [HACKERS] Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
Date: 2000-02-29 00:36:07
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000228163607.00ecb4f0@mail.pacifier.com
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At 02:04 AM 2/29/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>IIRC, the same behaviour plagued the old foreign key implementation
>in contrib, which was why it was refused for a long time to be
>integrated.
>
>I hope that at least the foreig keys don't do it anymore.

It shouldn't because they're implemented via triggers after all the
work is done. In other words, the implementation might have bugs
but the bugs should be different :)

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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