Close. It is still in the table so the v3.x code that reads system.local
will detect it and fail on an unknown column as that code appears to be
looking at the actual on-disk format.
It sounds like the short answer is that there is no way to physically
remove the column from the on-disk format on
When a column is dropped from a table, it is added to the
system.dropped_columns table so it doesn't get returned in the results. Is
that what you mean? 🙂
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Greetings,
I have been looking through the code and I can't find any place where
columns are removed from an sstable. I have found that rows can be
deleted. Columns can be marked as deleted. But I have found no place
where the deleted cell is removed from the row. Is there the concept of
comp