Re: BETWEEN Node & DROP COLUMN

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Well, it seems isdropped is going to have to be checked by _any_ client,
> > while holes in the number will have to be checked by _some_ clients. Is
> > that accurate?
>
> What's your point? No client that examines pg_attribute can be trusted
> until it's been examined pretty closely (as in, more closely than
> Christopher looked at pg_dump). I'd prefer to see us keep the backend
> simple and trustworthy, rather than pursue a largely-illusory idea that
> we might be saving some trouble on the client side.

Largely-illusory? Almost every pg_attribute query will have to be modified
for isdropped, while Hiroshi's approach requires so few changes, we are
having trouble even finding a query that needs to be modified. That's
pretty clear to me.

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