Re: Encountered an error

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 03:30:14PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> While this is a nice solution to OPs problem I cannot resist
> the urge to point out that to me the whole approach of adding
> a column from within client code (outside a database
> management application) does have at least a whiff of design
> smell to it.

Like, what happens if the user enters something to be used as
a column name which isn't suitable for an identifier ?

And then what if two different unsuitable user input values
get normalized into the same column-name-suitable version ?

Karsten
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