Re: Re: Outstanding patches

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Outstanding patches
Date: 2001-05-09 16:03:16
Message-ID: 200105091603.f49G3Gk06323@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Does this relate to allowing functions to be recreated with the same OID
> > as the original function? I think we need that badly for 7.2.
>
> No, I don't think that's very related; that's a simple matter of
> implementing an ALTER FUNCTION command. The other thing will require
> figuring out how to do dependency tracking.

Got it. Let me ask, if they change the column type, would they use
ALTER FUNCTION to then update to match the new column type. As I
understand it, the problem is that this does not happen automatically,
right?

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