Re: DROP COLUMN Proposal

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DROP COLUMN Proposal
Date: 2002-07-02 08:32:43
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOIEOGCCAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> The nice thing about this implementation approach is that most of the
> backend need not be aware of deleted columns. There are a few places in
> the parser (probably few enough to count on one hand) that will have to
> explicitly check for and reject references to dropped columns, and
> you're done. The rewriter, planner and executor are blissfully ignorant
> of the whole deal.

If you can enumerate these places without much effort, it'd be appreciated!

I found:

expandRTE() in parser/parse_relation.c

What else?

Chris

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