| From: | <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | "D(dot) Duccini" <duccini(at)backpack(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Chris <csmith(at)squiz(dot)net>, pgsql-novice(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: changing data type |
| Date: | 2000-10-19 15:37:52 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10010191133070.16238-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, D. Duccini wrote:
> My approach is "generic" and works across just about every SQL database
> manager out there....
That's fine, if one has the luxury of doing that, but dumping the data or
rebuilding tables won't work in, say, a CGI script where the data needs to
be converted on the fly. You also said that there wasn't a way to do it
in PostgreSQL 6.x, and it's right there in the docs for PostgreSQL 6.x.
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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