Re: Gradual migration from integer to bigint?

From: grimy(dot)outshine830(at)aceecat(dot)org
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Subject: Re: Gradual migration from integer to bigint?
Date: 2023-09-30 16:22:06
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:55:20PM +1000, James Healy wrote:

> It did make me curious though: would it be possible for postgres to
> support gradual migration from integer to bigint in a more
> transparent way, where new and updated tuples are written as bigint,
> but existing tuples can be read as integer?

Language police: this is the *opposite* of "transparent". "trasparent"
and "automated" are not synonyms.

--
Ian

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