On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote:
> >you could construe that as a feature --- you don't have to wait around
> >for a DROP COLUMN to finish. Anyone who did want to reclaim space
> >immediately could do
> > UPDATE table SET someothercolumn = someothercolumn;
> >followed by a VACUUM.
>
> Or perhaps vacuum could be made smart enough to remove deleted columns?
> Perhaps optionally?
when bruce and I discussed this, that was one thing we both agreed upon
... Vacuum is too slow as it is, let alone adding in more things for it to
do :(
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