From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Mike Broers <mbroers@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: alter column resize triggers question
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:28:33 -0400
Message-ID: <1277144881-sup-1782@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Excerpts from Mike Broers's message of lun jun 21 14:18:01 -0400 2010:
> I need to change service_name column to varchar(55), my plan was to backup
> the table with pg_dump, then run the below alter statement:
>
> alter table dim_product alter column service_name type varchar(55);
>
> But i am worried about the triggers because I believe that the alter table
> statement will rewrite the table and I dont want those triggers firing.
The triggers won't fire. It'll do you no harm to try it out in a toy
table, though.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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