Re: Altering column collation

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Altering column collation
Date: 2011-07-21 20:58:53
Message-ID: 1311281934.19329.29.camel@laptop
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On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 22:54 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 21:44 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 10:56 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
> > > On 19 July 2011 21:04, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 20:43 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
> > > >> On 19 July 2011 08:32, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> > > >> > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 00:48 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
> > > >> >> [...]
> > > >> >> Attached is a patch which fixes #328. Currently if you change a
> > > >> >> column's collation, it actually drops the column. This changes it so
> > > >> >> that it issues an ALTER TYPE to adjust the collation instead.
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Pushed on master. Thanks for yet another patch :)
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I didn't push it on 1.14 yet. The patch doesn't work here, and I guess
> > > >> > it's because I didn't push your previous patch. I'm not sure on the best
> > > >> > move here. Should we simply remove the bug (no change detected when
> > > >> > changing collation on the column properties dialog)? or should we apply
> > > >> > both patches (which will give us bugfix, and better handling of
> > > >> > columns)? Any ideas?
> > > >>
> > > >> Why can't we apply the patch to 1.14? I don't recall making any
> > > >> previous changes to dlgColumn.cpp. I just switched to 1.14,
> > > >> fast-forwarded all updates, applied the patch, built it, and it
> > > >> behaves correctly.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > We could apply it, but it doesn't work. I guess you did changes on
> > > > "Prevent duplicate members' names in a composite type" that are needed
> > > > for "Fix weird behaviour when changing column's collation" to make it
> > > > work.
> > >
> > > It seems to work if you go to the table properties and edit the
> > > columns from there, but not if you go into the column directly. I
> > > tried making a change to detect the collation drop-down change, but
> > > for some reason it either still doesn't pick it up at all, or doesn't
> > > show the initial "-- nothing to change" in the SQL tab, but in that
> > > latter case it does show the correct SQL when changing collation. I'm
> > > not sure what's going on there.
> > >
> >
> > Same problem here. Both on 1.14 and master. Seems like I commit a wrong
> > patch. My bad. Trying to fix it now.
> >
>
> Fixed.
>

And thanks, Thom, for the original patch :)

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