Also, rename the column to something else so a new one can be created in
it's place with the same name.  Do columns have their own oid's?  If so this
plus some random chars could be the new name.

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Gowey, Geoffrey 
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:35 PM
To: 'Marc G. Fournier'; Gowey, Geoffrey
Cc: 'Hiroshi Inoue'; Stephan Szabo; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] an already existing alter table drop column
?!?!?!


I do like the flag idea as a temporary patch until a fully workable solution
is available.  Just run a delete on the column and then flag it so it takes
up no space and is hidden.  By doing this now a more perfect solution can be
found later.  

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:28 PM
To: Gowey, Geoffrey
Cc: 'Hiroshi Inoue'; Stephan Szabo; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] an already existing alter table drop column
?!?!?!


On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Gowey, Geoffrey wrote:

> damn.  Is there a usable version being worked around? If so, how long
before
> it is available?

too many dissending opinions on how it should (and shouldn't) be done ...
the one that was put in pre-maturely needed 2x the disk space to do ... so
if you had a multi-gig table, you had to have enough free space to store a
second copy in order to remove a column ...

there was a bunch of us that felt that it could be done better using a
'flag' on the column so that it was hidden ... and some that thought ...
etc, etc ...


> > Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@hub.org]
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:14 PM
> To: Gowey, Geoffrey
> Cc: 'Hiroshi Inoue'; Stephan Szabo; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] an already existing alter table drop column
> ?!?!?!
>
>
>
> isn't
>

Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:48:59 -0400
"Gowey, Geoffrey" <ggowey@rxhope.com>
Re: an already existing alter table drop column ?!?!?!