Re: Re: Outstanding patches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Re: Outstanding patches
Date
Msg-id 200105091603.f49G3Gk06323@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Outstanding patches  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: Outstanding patches  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Does this relate to allowing functions to be recreated with the same OID
> > as the original function?  I think we need that badly for 7.2.
> 
> No, I don't think that's very related; that's a simple matter of
> implementing an ALTER FUNCTION command.  The other thing will require
> figuring out how to do dependency tracking.

Got it.  Let me ask, if they change the column type, would they use
ALTER FUNCTION to then update to match the new column type.  As I
understand it, the problem is that this does not happen automatically,
right?

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