Re: Deleting a COL

From: "John M(dot) Flinchbaugh" <glynis(at)butterfly(dot)hjsoft(dot)com>
To: Antonio Lagnada <lagnada(at)tbsoa(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Deleting a COL
Date: 2000-04-02 05:31:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0004020015390.23664-100000@butterfly.hjsoft.com
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Antonio Lagnada wrote:
> Does anyone know how to delete a column in PostgreSQL?
> I cannot find the SQL command to do it.

i don't think you can. you can though create a new table with the
desired fields, select or insert into it from the old table, drop the old
table, then rename the new to the old.

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