Re: ALTER TABLE modifications

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE modifications
Date: 2003-11-15 03:38:18
Message-ID: 3FB59FAA.1050104@familyhealth.com.au
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> I guess the real question here is whether we would want to revert this
> capability if a patch to adjust logical column orderings doesn't appear
> before 7.5. My vote would be "no", but apparently Peter's is "yes".
> Any other opinions?

The fact that it deals with the nightmare of dropping and recreating
indexes and fk's makes it worth it to me.

How about functions and views and rules that depend on it though?

Chris

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