
> Oh, there is a second drawback to it though ...
> 
> DROP COLUMN name

the dropped column looses its original name, and gets a 
system generated name, like "  dropped_col_5"

> ADD COLUMN name <of a different type>
> 
> Then what? :(

Andreas 

Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:05:26 +0100
Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns 