Yoou could do the following:
SELECT list_of_all_columns_you_want_to_keep
INTO TABLE new_table
FROM old_table;
DROP TABLE old_table;
ALTER TABLE new_table RENAME TO old_table;
I saw this in Bruce Momjian'n book "PostgreSQL Introduction and Concepts".
Regards
Devinder Rajput
Stores Division Corporate Offices
Chicago, IL
(773) 442-6474
Andrew Sullivan
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:34:47AM -0400, Jodi Kanter wrote:
> Does version 7.2 of Postgresql allow us to remove a column from a
> table?
No.
> syntax wrong. I thought this was a feature that was going to be
> added??
Yes. 7.3.
A
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