On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The old name might not fit there, attribute names have a relatively low > maximum length (64 by default), so we cannot always fit the entire old > name there. Thanks, I was guessing this. > > Also, think about: > CREATE TABLE foo(cola int); > ALTER TABLE foo DROP COLUMN cola; > ALTER TABLE foo ADD COLUMN cola; > ALTER TABLE foo DROP COLUMN cola; -- should not error out Well, I was talking about appending the original column name, and therefore the above should have been respectively pg.dropped.1.cola. and pg.dropped.2.cola. Of course the original name is not very much interesting, I was just curios about the conflicts. Luca -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
