Re: ALTER TABLE ... REPLACE WITH

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 11:34 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> As for the utility of this command: there is no question that I would
> use it.  I'm not sure I like the syntax (I'd prefer REPLACE TABLE ____
> WITH _____), but that's painting the bike shed.

REPLACE TABLE ying WITH yang

is probably easier to implement than hacking at the ALTER TABLE code
mountain. 

>   While the command may
> appear frivolous and unnecessary syntactical ornamentation to some, I
> have to say that doing the "table doesy-doe" which this command
> addresses is something I have written scripts for on at least 50% of
> my professional clients.  It keeps coming up. 

Yeh.

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