Re: More DROP COLUMN

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> However, I'm not happy with the way dropped columns are renamed.

Okay...

> We could name the fields "________dropped_x" sort of thing perhaps????

In practice that would certainly work, especially if we increase
NAMEDATALEN to 128 or so, as has been proposed repeatedly.

Alternatively, we could invest a lot of work to make it possible for
attname to be NULL, but I don't see the payoff...
        regards, tom lane