Re: Altering column collation

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 21:07 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 09:32 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 00:48 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
> >> > [...]
> >> > Attached is a patch which fixes #328. Currently if you change a
> >> > column's collation, it actually drops the column. This changes it so
> >> > that it issues an ALTER TYPE to adjust the collation instead.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Pushed on master. Thanks for yet another patch :)
> >>
> >> I didn't push it on 1.14 yet. The patch doesn't work here, and I guess
> >> it's because I didn't push your previous patch. I'm not sure on the best
> >> move here. Should we simply remove the bug (no change detected when
> >> changing collation on the column properties dialog)? or should we apply
> >> both patches (which will give us bugfix, and better handling of
> >> columns)? Any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > Dave, I would like to know what you think of this.
>
> Err, I never even looked at the collation feature. Let's see what Thom
> comes up with following your comment that it applies but doesn't work,
> and argue about it then if necessary. Looking back at the thread
> though, it does seem like a bug that should be resolved.
>

OK.

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