Re: DROP COLUMN

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> >> I agree that a wrapper function is probably an appropriate solution,
> >> but only some of the calls of SearchSysCache should use it.
> 
> > What like add another parameter to SearchSysCache*?
> 
> Definitely *not*; I don't want to kluge up every call to SearchSysCache
> with a feature that's only relevant to a small number of them.

Uh, then what?  The only idea I had was to set a static boolean variable in
syscache.c that controls whether droppped columns are returned, and have
a enable/disable functions that can turn it on/off.  The only problem is
that an elog inside a syscache lookup would leave that value set.

My only other idea is to make a syscache that is like ATTNAME except
that it doesn't return a dropped column.  I could probably code that up
if you wish.

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