>I'm probably missing something, but can anyone see a reason why adding an ADD OR >ALTER COLUMN syntax to the ALTER
TABLEcommand isn't either a) achievable or b) >desirable?
>It seems to me to be eminently useful and not overly difficult, while potentially >saving a significant amount of
efforton the part of users.
what is your use case ? Not sure what benefit you are talking about.
thanks.
