| From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Cascaded Column Drop |
| Date: | 2002-09-27 04:11:28 |
| Message-ID: | 3D93DA70.5030109@joeconway.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>What I was actually wondering about after reading Tim's report was
>>whether we could support zero-column tables, which would eliminate the
>>need for the special case altogether. I have not looked to see how
>>extensive are the places that assume tuples have > 0 columns ...
>
> Zero-width tables do sound interesting. Is it somehow non-relational?
>
I can see a zero column table as a transition state maybe, but what else would
they be useful for?
Joe
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