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Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN
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Msg-id 36e682920610261248i48c4086ah94d71d4be869a973@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN
Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN
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On 10/26/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> This makes some really quite unacceptable assumptions about
> the meaning and encoding of typmod ...

True, so VARCHAR seems like the only one?  That's the only one I've
really encountered in the field on a fairly regular basis.

> I'm also wondering what's the point of comparing attbyval etc when
> you've already checked it's the same type OID.

True.

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