am Mon, dem 11.12.2006, um 16:11:24 +0100 mailte Bram Kuijper folgendes:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry for the clutter, but cannot find a good answer to this problem in
> the mailinglist archives:
>
> If I execute either of both commands (I run postgresql 8.1.4 on Ubuntu
> GNU/linux):
>
> # ALTER TABLE table_name DELETE COLUMN column
> # ALTER TABLE table_name DROP COLUMN column
You are in the psql-tool?
The first syntax is wrong, the latter are okay, but you need a ';' on
the linend.
>
> nothing happens... if I do
>
> # \d table_name,
test=# \d foobar
Table "public.foobar"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
id | integer |
a | integer |
b | integer |
c | integer |
test=# alter table foobar drop column c;
ALTER TABLE
test=*# \d foobar
Table "public.foobar"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
id | integer |
a | integer |
b | integer |
Andreas
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