From: | Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE & COLUMN |
Date: | 2002-12-03 19:27:15 |
Message-ID: | x77keqzywc.fsf@onceler.kciLink.com |
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>>>>> "NC" == Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
NC> problem leaving this in the hands of the admin. The one exception might
NC> be changing the length limit on a varchar(n) column, but that's such a
NC> small case I'm not sure it's worth the bother (and can be done by
NC> hacking the system catalogs anyway).
That's a PITA to do, and scares the willies out of mere mortals,
myself included. Doing a add column, rename old, copy data, rename
new is also a PITA, and I'm not sure the effects of that on foreign
keys that my reference that column.
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