On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 06:43:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> ... as, no doubt, are a lot of applications that this will gratuitously
> break. We've long had a policy that ALTER TABLE will work on relations
> that aren't tables, so long as the requested operation is sensible.
Yeah, that was my first thought after seeing this thread. There is a
risk in breaking something that was working previously. Perhaps it
was just working by accident, but that could be surprising if an
application relied on the existing behavior.
--
Michael
