

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr] 
> Sent: 13 February 2002 08:10
> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Hiroshi Inoue; Tom Lane; Kovacs Zoltan
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] alter table drop column status
> 
> 
> Le Mercredi 13 Fï¿½vrier 2002 06:14, Christopher Kings-Lynne a ï¿½crit :
> > This seems fantastic - why can't this be committed? ï¿½Surely if it's 
> > committed then the flaws will fairly quickly be ironed out? 
> ï¿½Even if 
> > it has flaws, then if we say 'this function is not yet stable' at 
> > least people can start testing it and reporting the problems?
> 
> +1. What are the reasons why this hack was not applied?

See /doc/TODO.detail/drop in the source tree. That pretty much explains it.

Regards, Dave.

Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:30:37 -0000
Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: alter table drop column status