From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Joe <dev@freedomcircle.net>
Cc: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is this a bug? Deleting a column deletes the constraint.
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:19:57 +0200
Message-ID: <82d58x7bgy.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
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* Tom Lane:
> The CREATE TABLE reference page further amplifies:
>
> PostgreSQL allows a table of no columns to be created (for example,
> CREATE TABLE foo();). This is an extension from the SQL standard, which
> does not allow zero-column tables. Zero-column tables are not in
> themselves very useful, but disallowing them creates odd special cases
> for ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN, so it seems cleaner to ignore this spec
> restriction.
And you need the syntax for table partitioning.
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