Re: Avoiding rewrite in ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Avoiding rewrite in ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE
Date
Msg-id 20101229175633.GR25421@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Avoiding rewrite in ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:16:23AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> > ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE always rewrites the table heap and its indexes.  In some
> > cases, we can determine that doing so is unhelpful, and that the conversion
> > shall always succeed:
> > I wish to replace table rewrites with table verification scans where possible,
> > then skip those verification scans where possible.
> 
> This has been discussed before; have you read the previous threads?

It would help a lot if, in future, you include references to the
previous threads you have in mind rather than simply mention that they
exist.

Saying, in effect, "search the archives with our not-super-great
search technology using keywords you didn't think of," comes off as
pretty dismissive if not downright hostile.

Cheers,
David.
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