Close. It is still in the table so the v3.x code that reads system.local will detect it and fail on an unknown column as that code appears to be looking at the actual on-disk format.
It sounds like the short answer is that there is no way to physically remove the column from the on-disk format once it is added. On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 11:28 AM Erick Ramirez <erickramire...@apache.org> wrote: > When a column is dropped from a table, it is added to the > system.dropped_columns table so it doesn't get returned in the results. Is > that what you mean? 🙂 > >>