Re: [SQL-Ledger-users] Drop Column?

[Hal D. <ha...@fa...>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Nice!
> 
> That's right, I remember now...Postgresql doesn't have a simple means
> for dropping columns. I think you did the only thing you could do. This
> transfers your data I take it? Hopefully this will be simplified in future
> versions of Postgresql. By the way, what are you working on?
> 
Well,

I have a current product done in the Progress 4GL product(NON-SQL) with the
servers running Caldera 2.3(2.2.14) boxes. Clients connect from Win95/98 boxes
by TCP/IP and NetTerm over 100BaseT networks.

The product is designed for petroleum and lubricant distribution jobbers
including a 'BackOffice' package for their C-Stores.

I has all of the accounting packages including multi-state US payrolls.

This market is odd in that all unit pricing is done to 5 decimal places. On any
particular invoice there could be as many as 11 different taxes that might have
to be computed, added and displayed individually.

Moving to PostgreSQL so that we can use the various SQL report writers and the
GUI garbage that the users think they want.


Sorry for the long reply..:(

--Hal.  
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