| From: | Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: alter table alter columns vs. domains |
| Date: | 2004-05-06 19:00:12 |
| Message-ID: | 1083870012.91282.40.camel@jester |
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> If we were willing to abuse the ALTER TABLE syntax some more, it would
> be possible to support changing the datatypes of f1 and f2
> simultaneously, thereby allowing the above to work. The infrastructure
> for hacking multiple tables in parallel is already there in CVS tip,
> but it only gets exercised in cases involving inheritance.
I don't think we need to allow end users to do it via the grammar.
Allowing an ALTER TYPE or ALTER DOMAIN to set up the multiple table
transform is enough.
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