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Re: ALTER composite type does not work, but ALTER TABLE which ROWTYPE is used as a type - works fine - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: ALTER composite type does not work, but ALTER TABLE which ROWTYPE is used as a type - works fine
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Msg-id 603c8f070812100624j1858ee35o3d8498df6a288ce6@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: ALTER composite type does not work, but ALTER TABLE which ROWTYPE is used as a type - works fine  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> Allow ALTER TYPE to add, rename, change the type of, and drop columns?
>
> That seems kind of vague because my first reaction is that a type
> doesn't have columns, but you are talking about composite types, right?

Right.

> I have added this TODO item:
>
>        Allow ALTER TYPE on composite types to perform operations similar to
>        ALTER TABLE
>
>        * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00245.php

Sounds good.

...Robert

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