| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
|---|---|
| To: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | RE: [HACKERS] Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN |
| Date: | 2000-02-29 06:32:15 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0002290231410.434-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy(at)hub(dot)org]
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > Hiroshi ...
> >
> > Bruce's comment was just an observation ... if it can be done
> > cleanly, I would love to see a version that didn't involve 2x the disk
> > space ... I don't believe that a trial would be useless, I think that
> > Bruce's only concern/warning is that the amount of code modifications that
> > would have to be made in order to accomplish this *might* be larger then
> > the benefit resulting in doing it this way.
> >
> > If you feel that this can be done more efficiently, *please*
> > proceed with the trial ...
> >
>
> OK,I may be able to provide a trial patch in a week or so if I'm lucky.
> How to commit the patch ?
> With #ifdef ?
Nope, but it will have to wait until *after* 7.0 is released, so don't
push yourself on it ...
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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