Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items
Date: 2004-05-06 01:45:03
Message-ID: 4099989F.7070703@familyhealth.com.au
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> Yeah, the USING is actually any arbitrary expression over the old table
> row. (Getting that to work was a tad tricky...) So you can view this
> as a full-table UPDATE operation that folds in possible column type changes.

All I can say is three cheers for Tom and Rod on this one!!!!

Chris

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