Waiting for 9.1 – ALTER TYPE
On 26th of September, Peter Eisentraut committed patch which adds: ADD ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/RENAME ATTRIBUTE LIKE WITH TABLES, this also requires allowing the existence OF composite types...
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Finally, on 25th of October, Tom Lane committed patch which does: Allow new values to be added to an existing enum type. After much expenditure of effort, we've got this to the point where the...
View ArticleWaiting for 9.1 – Rewrite-less changing types of column
On 12th of February, Robert Haas committed patch: Teach ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE TO avoid SOME TABLE rewrites. WHEN the OLD TYPE IS BINARY coercible TO the NEW TYPE AND the USING clause does NOT...
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