On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 16:06 -0400, Lukas Eklund wrote:
>> Ah. I must have not noticed that the typmod for views is not inherited
>> automatically. I'm okay with developing a script to recreate the 15 or
>> so views the depend on that table. What I'm trying to avoid is locking
>> that table for a substantial amount of time. Thanks for the advice!
>
> FYI, later versions of postgres try to avoid rewrites of the table when
> possible for simple ALTERs like the one you're talking about.
>
> Are you using PostgreSQL 9.1? Try it out in a simple test case... maybe
> the lock is only held for an instant anyway. Some of these optimizations
> went in 9.2 (not released yet) but I think the one you need is in 9.1.
nope -- see link upthread. numeric is 9.2+
merlin
