[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>"Gino LV.Ledesma" wrote:
>> 
>> >> hello all!
>> >>
>> >> how to drop columns in postgresql?
>> >
>> > according to pg expert Mike, hindi pwede. Alam ko hindi rin pwede sa
>> > Oracle.
>> 
>> Yep... Learned in databases class that dropping tables as a feature has
>> been "dropped" or probably never implemented in the first place was
>> because of the problems that'd arise when you tables are dropped, namely
>> that of broken relations and the like.
>
>The question was about dropping columns. DROP TABLE is and has always
>been a SQL. Referential integrity is often implemented via database
>triggers, so when a table with a primary key referenced from other
>tables is dropped, the trigger(s) is/are dropped as well. 

This is true but you have to manually deal with the "sequences"
(usually created with tables using "serial" data types in PostgreSQL.

>The database
>remains consistent.
>

sherwin

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