| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns |
| Date: | 2000-01-24 20:23:16 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0001241622250.79710-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote:
> At 03:44 PM 1/24/00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> >Oh, there is a second drawback to it though ...
> >
> >DROP COLUMN name
> >ADD COLUMN name <of a different type>
> >
> >Then what? :(
>
> I don't understand...the idea is to make the old column name
> invisible, and therefore "add column" won't see it either.
so the pg_* file that maintains the 'fields' in a table would have two
fields of the same name, one enabled, one disabled?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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