Re: AW: [HACKERS] ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN

[Hannu Krosing]

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Zeugswetter Andreas SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > My conclusion would be that we need both:
> > 1. a fast system table only solution with physical/logical column id
> > 2. a tool that does the cleanup (e.g. vacuum)
> 
> But the peak space usage during cleanup must still be 2X.

Perhaps he means some kind of off-line cleanup tool, that has only the 
requirement of being able to continue from where it left off (or
crashed) ?

It could be useful in some cases (like removing a column on saturday
from a 
terabyte-sized file that is used only on weekdays :)

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Hannu