Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote:

> At 03:44 PM 1/24/00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> >Oh, there is a second drawback to it though ...
> >
> >DROP COLUMN name
> >ADD COLUMN name <of a different type>
> >
> >Then what? :(
> 
> I don't understand...the idea is to make the old column name
> invisible, and therefore "add column" won't see it either.

so the pg_* file that maintains the 'fields' in a table would have two
fields of the same name, one enabled, one disabled?

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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