Re: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> What happens if you crash partway through?
> 
> > what happens if you crash partway through a vacuum?
> 
> Nothing.  Vacuum is crash-safe.  ALTER TABLE should be too.

Sorry, that's what I meant ... why should marking a column as 'deleted'
and running a 'vacuum' to clean up the physical table be any less
crash-safe?