Re: Wiki Page Draft for upcoming release

Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-03-18 16:19:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > > On 2014-03-18 19:28:53 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> > >> It would be nice to be able to tell people that if they vacuum, then
> > >> reindex and check all their foreign key constraints then they should
> > >> be ok.
> >
> > > I don't think so:
> > > http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20140317233919.GS16438%40awork2.anarazel.de
> >
> > > I still think a rewriting noop ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN col TYPE
> > > old_type USING (col); is the only real thing to do.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the operative word in that is "noop". Didn't you see
> > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/11964.1395100860@sss.pgh.pa.us
>
> Huh, that somehow never arrived here. Very odd.

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