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From: Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]>
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Feature Proposal: Column-Level DELETE Operation in SQL
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:26:07 +0200
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Am Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 10:23:30PM +0530 schrieb Abhishek Hatgine:

>    *deleting* a value is conceptually different from *updating* it to NULL.

In what way ?

In other words, you'll have to much better define what you
mean be "deleting a value".

DROP COLUMN already exists, for that matter.

Updating a column to its DEFAULT value may also be closer to
what you envision a "column-delete" to do.

Karsten
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