Don Baccus wrote:
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> At 12:04 AM 1/24/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> >It could possibly be done by marking the column deleted and doing the
> >compression/renumbering during vacuum , or by locking the table and
> >compressing each page in-place if space is a concern or maybe several
> >other ways.
> >The existence of several ways to do it should not discourage people
> >from actually adding the drop column feature to postgres
>
> It should provide even more encouragement to discuss the proposed
> implementation *first*.
Judging from the length of this thread it is much more effective to get
a discussion *after* ;)
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Hannu