Re: Bright ideas required for drop column...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bright ideas required for drop column...
Date: 2002-07-18 13:55:22
Message-ID: 5002.1027000522@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Does anyone know how I should modify MergeAttributes to support dropped
> columns?

I think you could get away with just ignoring dropped columns from the
parent. There's no assumption that column numbers are the same in
parent and child.

regards, tom lane

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