Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Because you want to have multiple versions of a table with the same name
> > and table oid.  We don't have to have the oid equal the oid of the
> > table.  Just use any oid to append to the table name for versioning.
> 
> That'd do for versioning, but what about a plain table-renaming
> operation?  We aren't making a new file in that case, and we still
> want to avoid rename().

I see.  Hard to see how the advantage of fixing that would be worth
losing table names as files.

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