Re: [HACKERS] Custom compression methods

Tomas Vondra wrote:

> On 12/01/2017 08:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > Maybe our dependency code needs to be extended in order to support this.
> > I think the current logic would drop the column if you were to do "DROP
> > COMPRESSION .. CASCADE", but I'm not sure we'd see that as a feature.
> > I'd rather have DROP COMPRESSION always fail instead until no columns
> > use it.  Let's hear other's opinions on this bit though.
> 
> Why should this behave differently compared to data types? Seems quite
> against POLA, if you ask me ...

OK, DROP TYPE sounds good enough precedent, so +1 on that.

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