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ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN corrupts data
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I confirm that this bug exists in the current code. An interesting variation:
<code>
drop table if exists t;
create table t(id integer primary key not null, f integer, b integer);
insert into t (f,b) select 1,2 from generate_series(1,50000,1);
alter table t drop column f;
select count(\*) from t where b<>2;
; -- emits 49867
drop table if exists t;
create table t(id integer primary key not null, f integer, b integer);
insert into t (f,b) select 123456789,987654321 from generate_series(1,50000,1);
alter table t drop column f;
select count(\*) from t where b<>987654321;
; -- emits 0
</code>

It appears that there is a dependency on the dropped or kept datum size.