Re: alter table alter columns vs. domains

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: alter table alter columns vs. domains
Date: 2004-05-06 17:17:02
Message-ID: 1083863821.91282.6.camel@jester
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> > Is it feasible or practical to consider adding ALTER DOMAIN TYPE type?
> > (basically following the same rules as ALTER TABLE).
>
> Interesting --- you would have to rebuild every table that uses the
> domain, and map from-to for all stored values of the domain.
>
> TODO item?

Yes. This is something I was going to look at doing in the next release.

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