Re: alter table change type column

From: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: frank_lupo <frank_lupo(at)email(dot)it>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: alter table change type column
Date: 2003-03-24 17:26:13
Message-ID: 3E7F3FB5.4050904@cvc.net
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BTW, do the functions and indexes automatically get dropped if they are
referencing a column that gets dropped?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Yes, afraid so.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dennis Gearon wrote:
>
>>And then redo all the triggers and indexes also?
>>
>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>>>No, we have not implemented that. You can add a column, copy the data
>>>over from the old column, then drop the old column and rename the new
>>>column.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>=?iso-8859-1?Q?frank=5Flupo?= wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is possible to alter table change type of column?
>>>>
>>>>
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