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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Missing doc on expression format for ALTER TABLE
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:11:43 -0800
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Tom,

> 	ALTER [ COLUMN ] column TYPE type [ USING expression ]
>
> Surely you're not expecting it to repeat the complete syntax for
> <expression>.

Well, yes, actually.  Where in the documentation is a type conversion 
expression defined?   Do we use NEW and OLD?  Or the name of the column?  Or 
something else?

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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