Hoow do you drop a column in a table

Hi Art,

On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:37 PM, Art Fore wrote:

ALTER TABLE "MPC" DROP COLUMNG do_not_use CASCADE

It appeared to work but did not drop the column. What is the
dprocedure for dropping a column? an anyone point me to a document
that tells EXACTLY how to do this? Also, how do you find out the
dependencies it says it has? I know of none.

Here is the documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-altertable.html

If it still does not work, try again in psql and then paste the output
in your email so we can better understand the problem.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:37 -0800, Art Fore wrote:

Using phppgadmin, I tried tropping a column in a table. I comes back to
try DROP .. CASCADE. Went into psql and typed the following,

ALTER TABLE "MPC" DROP COLUMNG do_not_use CASCADE

It appeared to work but did not drop the column. What is the dprocedure
for dropping a column? an anyone point me to a document that tells
EXACTLY how to do this? Also, how do you find out the dependencies it
says it has? I know of none.

Art

ALTER TABLE foo DROP COLUMN name CASCADE;

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Thanks for the answers. I recreated the views. Did not realize when you
renamed a column, it also changed the views.

Art

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