On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Gowey, Geoffrey wrote: > damn. Is there a usable version being worked around? If so, how long before > it is available?
too many dissending opinions on how it should (and shouldn't) be done ... the one that was put in pre-maturely needed 2x the disk space to do ... so if you had a multi-gig table, you had to have enough free space to store a second copy in order to remove a column ... there was a bunch of us that felt that it could be done better using a 'flag' on the column so that it was hidden ... and some that thought ... etc, etc ... > > Geoff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:14 PM > To: Gowey, Geoffrey > Cc: 'Hiroshi Inoue'; Stephan Szabo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] an already existing alter table drop column > ?!?!?! > > > > isn't > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly