Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

At 12:04 AM 1/24/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>It could possibly be done by marking the column deleted and doing the 
>compression/renumbering during vacuum , or by locking the table and 
>compressing each page in-place if space is a concern or maybe several 
>other ways. 
>The existence of several ways to do it should not discourage people 
>from actually adding the drop column feature to postgres

It should provide even more encouragement to discuss the proposed
implementation *first*.

IMHO, again.




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