Re: alter table change type column - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dennis Gearon
Subject Re: alter table change type column
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Msg-id 3E7F3FB5.4050904@cvc.net
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In response to Re: alter table change type column  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: alter table change type column  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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BTW, do the functions and indexes automatically get dropped if they are
referencing a column that gets dropped?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Yes, afraid so.
>
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> Dennis Gearon wrote:
>
>>And then redo all the triggers and indexes also?
>>
>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>>No, we have not implemented that.  You can add a column, copy the data
>>>over from the old column, then drop the old column and rename the new
>>>column.
>>>
>>>
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>>>=?iso-8859-1?Q?frank=5Flupo?= wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Is possible to alter table change type of column?
>>>>
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