> if PostgreSQL could successfully rollback DDL statements sanely (and thus 
> diverge from ORACLE). I guess I don't expect that to happen successfully
> until 
> something the equivalent of TABLESPACES is implemented and there is a 
> disassociation between table names, index names and their filesystem 
> counterparts and to be able to "undo" filesystem operations. That, it seems
> to 
> me, will be a major undertaking and not going to happen any time soon...

Ingres has table names that don't match on-disk file names, and it is a
pain to administer because you can't figure out what is going on at the
file system level.  Table files have names like AAAHFGE.

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