On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 11:34 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > As for the utility of this command: there is no question that I would > use it. I'm not sure I like the syntax (I'd prefer REPLACE TABLE ____ > WITH _____), but that's painting the bike shed.
REPLACE TABLE ying WITH yang is probably easier to implement than hacking at the ALTER TABLE code mountain. > While the command may > appear frivolous and unnecessary syntactical ornamentation to some, I > have to say that doing the "table doesy-doe" which this command > addresses is something I have written scripts for on at least 50% of > my professional clients. It keeps coming up. Yeh. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
