Dropping Columns

Started by Thomas Swanover 25 years ago4 messages
#1Thomas Swan
tswan@olemiss.edu

How nasty would dropping columns be?

I've just now started going through the source and am trying to find where
it would fit in... if it could be done without a nightmare.

Any pointers?
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#2Ross J. Reedstrom
reedstrm@rice.edu
In reply to: Thomas Swan (#1)
Re: Dropping Columns

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Thomas Swan wrote:

How nasty would dropping columns be?

I've just now started going through the source and am trying to find where
it would fit in... if it could be done without a nightmare.

Any pointers?

Long discussion in February, and again in June in HACKERS. (Hmm, the
new User's Lounge seems to have gone in, but now we've no links to
mail archives. Ah, here's a bookmark I can use to get in.)

Here's one pointer:

http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-hackers/2000-06/msg00324.html

The search feature on the front page will search the mailing lists for
you, it's just a bit slow.

Oh, look in <your pgsql source tree>/doc/TODO.detail/drop

Looks like the thread from HACKERS is in there.

Ross
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#3Vince Vielhaber
vev@michvhf.com
In reply to: Ross J. Reedstrom (#2)
Re: Dropping Columns

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Thomas Swan wrote:

How nasty would dropping columns be?

I've just now started going through the source and am trying to find where
it would fit in... if it could be done without a nightmare.

Any pointers?

Long discussion in February, and again in June in HACKERS. (Hmm, the
new User's Lounge seems to have gone in, but now we've no links to
mail archives. Ah, here's a bookmark I can use to get in.)

Here's one pointer:

http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-hackers/2000-06/msg00324.html

For now you can get there from the general info page in the user's
lounge. I'm working up the search page now.

The search feature on the front page will search the mailing lists for
you, it's just a bit slow.

Oh, look in <your pgsql source tree>/doc/TODO.detail/drop

Looks like the thread from HACKERS is in there.

Ross

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#4Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp
In reply to: Thomas Swan (#1)
RE: Dropping Columns

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Swan

How nasty would dropping columns be?

I have an solution which uses 2(logical/physical) attribute numbers.
However I'm not satisfied with it.

It isn't so clean as I expected.
It breaks backward compatibility ... etc.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp