On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>
>> now, back to the problem... is not easier to define a column as TEXT
>> and to put a check to constraint the length? if you wanna change the
>> constraint that will be almost free
>
> Thanks for the interesting suggestion. I'm not sure I'd want to go
> there for various reasons; but even if I wanted to go that route, how
> would I modify that constraint without causing the whole table to be
> scanned for compliance?
>
the table will be scanned but not rewritten
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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
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