Re: Is it necessary to rewrite table while increasing the scale of datatype numeric? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Is it necessary to rewrite table while increasing the scale of datatype numeric?
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Msg-id 20130906204454.GA6068@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Is it necessary to rewrite table while increasing the scale of datatype numeric?  (Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>)
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Jim Nasby escribió:

> I also have a vague memory of some features that would benefit from
> being able to have typemod info available at a tuple level in a table,
> not just for the entire table. Unfortunately I can't remember why we
> wanted that... (Alvaro, do you recall? I'm pretty sure it's something
> we'd discussed at some point.)

I don't remember anything concrete either.  Maybe it was the E.164 type
stuff, where we wanted auxiliary info to dictate what kind of pattern to
{match on input, apply on output} ?

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