| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: --single-transaction hack to pg_upgrade does not work |
| Date: | 2012-12-01 19:13:29 |
| Message-ID: | 4818.1354389209@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2012-12-01 13:43:44 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I believe this text in alter_type.sgml need updating:
>>
>> <command>ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE</> (the form that adds a new value to an
>> enum type) cannot be executed inside a transaction block.
> I purposefully didn't change that because the new support is rather
> minimalistic.
Yeah, I tend to agree. There are a lot of cases that people might think
should work that won't, and anyway it's not clear what the use-case is
for this beyond pg_dump's very specific usage.
regards, tom lane
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