From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE x ALTER COLUMN y TYPE z
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:50:20 -0500
Message-ID: <200603221650.21203.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19259.1143058484@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 15:14, Tom Lane wrote:
> However, the arguments Robert pointed to had to do with concurrent
> access to the table, and somehow I am not seeing the use-case for ALTER
> COLUMN TYPE on a table that's being actively used by other clients.
> It seems unlikely that you could do that without needing to also update
> your client software.
Altering between char and text or some such? Or something like INET to TEXT.
(Not that it matters for the things being discussed here, but I think there
are cases)
--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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