I've seen these sets of steps suggested in response to other such inquires, but doesn't this break views on the associated table, or may just not work because if a view dependency exists?
It would be the second case (it won't work at all). You can use "cascade" when dropping column. After this you need to recreate views dropped together with a column.
Regards, Tomasz Myrta
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