| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Çagil Seker <cagils(at)biznet(dot)com(dot)tr>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE & COLUMN |
| Date: | 2002-12-02 18:23:38 |
| Message-ID: | 200212021823.gB2INct12848@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> >> Actually this seems to be one of the rare areas where MySQL is better.
> >> PG 7.3 improves a lot though.
>
> Without triggers and referential integrity, changing columns is a
> lot easyer ;)
And if you want to be able to roll it back in an aborted transaction.
Many commerical databases don't even get this one right.
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