Re: 7.3 and HEAD broken for dropped columns of dropped types

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:20:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> I am thinking that it might be a good idea for ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN
> to reset atttypid to zero in the dropped column's pg_attribute row.
> This would help catch any other places that are depending on a dropped
> column's atttypid to still be valid.  On the other hand, it would
> possibly confuse applications that are looking at pg_attribute.
> Comments anyone?

Applications looking at pg_attribute and ignoring attisdropped are
broken anyway, so just exposing their brokenness by means of setting an
invalid atttypid does not make them any more (nor any less) broken.

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