Okay... thanks for the replies on the 'cannot remove column' topic. That
answer indeed quite obvious..
some other newbie-related issue:
If I select all columns from a pgsql-table from a Perl-Script (by using
DBD::pg by doing something like:
#select all column names:
my $results = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("SELECT column_name FROM
information_schema.columns WHERE table_name ='simulations_ltbl'")
or warn "something goes wrong here";
# print all column names:
for my $row (@$results) {
print "@$row\n";
}
then I don't get the complete set of columns compared to when I execute
the SQL directly in PostgreSQL. Especially I miss 2 column names in
Perl, which have types 'timestamp without time zone' and 'character
varying(255)', which are shown without problem when using the psql client.
Sounds like some DBD-related issue in displaying all supported column
values, but on the DBD::pg site on CPAN, both datatypes are supported.
Something else knows what's wrong with this?
any help is appreciated,
Bram