Re: Cascaded Column Drop

Joe Conway wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >>What I was actually wondering about after reading Tim's report was
> >>whether we could support zero-column tables, which would eliminate the
> >>need for the special case altogether.  I have not looked to see how
> >>extensive are the places that assume tuples have > 0 columns ...
> >
> > Zero-width tables do sound interesting.  Is it somehow non-relational?
> >
>
> I can see a zero column table as a transition state maybe, but what else would
> they be useful for?

It's the /dev/null of the SQL world, but I'm not sure what that means. :-)

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