On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > okay, but, again based on my impression of what Tom has stated, and
> > previous conversations on this topic, the key problem is what happens if I
> > drop a column and a later date decide add a new column of the same name,
> > what happens?
>
> I'm not very worried about that --- presumably the old column is either
> marked as dead or gone entirely from pg_attribute, so why should there
> be any confusion?
right, but, if you add a column after it was previuosly marked dead, does
it then create a second column in pg_attribute with that same
name? *raised eyebrow*