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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Indexes vs. cache flushes
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In response to Re: Indexes vs. cache flushes  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> How would this affect changing the type of a column?

It doesn't, because we drop and rebuild indexes completely during ALTER
COLUMN TYPE.
        regards, tom lane

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