RE: [HACKERS] Re: ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
> >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Hiroshi ...
> >
> >     Bruce's comment was just an observation ... if it can be done
> > cleanly, I would love to see a version that didn't involve 2x the disk
> > space ... I don't believe that a trial would be useless, I think that
> > Bruce's only concern/warning is that the amount of code modifications that
> > would have to be made in order to accomplish this *might* be larger then
> > the benefit resulting in doing it this way.
> >
> >     If you feel that this can be done more efficiently, *please*
> > proceed with the trial ...
> >
> 
> OK,I may be able to provide a trial patch in a week or so if I'm lucky.
> How to commit the patch ?
> With #ifdef ?

Nope, but it will have to wait until *after* 7.0 is released, so don't
push yourself on it ... 

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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