Re: DOMAIN usability

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>Rajesh Kumar Mallah writes:
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>>*1.* Suppose varchar(30) turns out to be too small oneday
>> and we want to increase it to varchar(100) , what do i do ?
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>This is no different from the problem of changing a column type in place.
>It's still being worked on.
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Yes i realize so. But what could be in principle wrong to allow increasing
storage size only eg varchar(30) to varchar(100) not integer to
varchar(100)
etc. I remeber there was already a long thread of discussion on it.

BTW: Searching on archives.postgresql.org takes ages is it using FTS?

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>>*2.* Its difficult to see all the constraint defs on a domain .
>> information_schema.domain_constriants does not have the
>> definations just the names are present.
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>You need to join domain_constraints and check_constraints.
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thanks.

Regds
Mallah.

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