Re: Altering column collation

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.

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