Re: [HACKERS] Re: BUG #4689: Expanding the length of a VARCHAR column should not induce a table rewrite

From: Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>
To: Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, xuan--2009(dot)03--submitbug--support--postgresql(dot)org(at)baldauf(dot)org, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: BUG #4689: Expanding the length of a VARCHAR column should not induce a table rewrite
Date: 2009-03-05 15:47:30
Message-ID: 49AFF412.7030506@beccati.com
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Guillaume Smet ha scritto:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> The question is how you want to implement this in a data type independent
>> fashion. You can't assume that increasing the typmod is a noop for all data
>> types.
>
> Sure. See my previous answer on -hackers (I don't think this
> discussion belong to -bugs) and especially the discussion in the
> archives about Jonas' patch.

I recently had a similar problem when I added some domains to the
application. ALTER TABLE ... TYPE varchar_dom was leading to a full
table rewrite even though the underlying type definition were exactly
the same (i.e. varchar(64)). I can live with it, but I suppose this fix
might be related to the varlen one.

Cheers

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Matteo Beccati

OpenX - http://www.openx.org

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