Re: ALTER TABLE x ALTER COLUMN y TYPE z - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE x ALTER COLUMN y TYPE z
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Msg-id 200603221650.21203.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: ALTER TABLE x ALTER COLUMN y TYPE z  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 15:14, Tom Lane wrote:
> However, the arguments Robert pointed to had to do with concurrent
> access to the table, and somehow I am not seeing the use-case for ALTER
> COLUMN TYPE on a table that's being actively used by other clients.
> It seems unlikely that you could do that without needing to also update
> your client software.

Altering between char and text or some such? Or something like INET to TEXT.
(Not that it matters for the things being discussed here, but I think there
are cases)

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Robert Treat
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