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Rick Hillegas commented on DERBY-6882:
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Regression tests passed cleanly for on derby-6882-01-aa-initialCode.diff.
Thanks for looking at the patch, Bryan. The next version will improve the error
message as you suggest. Concerning old-style identity columns: I will include
upgrade tests which verify that the ALWAYS vs DEFAULT behavior of an identity
column can only be changed if the database has been hard-upgraded to 10.10 or
later. Note that the hard-upgrade to 10.10 converts the old-style identity
columns into the new-style, sequence-backed identity columns. Thanks.
> Add functionality to ALTER TABLE: switch from GENERATED ALWAYS to GENERATED
> BY DEFAULT
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>
> Key: DERBY-6882
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6882
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 10.12.1.1
> Reporter: Aleksei Kovura
> Assignee: Rick Hillegas
> Labels: features
> Attachments: derby-6882-01-aa-initialCode.diff
>
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> I'm trying to import data from another Derby database with foreignViews tool
> because system tables got corrupted somehow (see
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6876). Tables contain generated
> ID columns (created as "GENERATED ALWAYS"). Importing data and allowing Derby
> to generate new IDs in generated columns will break relationships between
> tables (old tables have counter gaps there due to deletes - IDs won't match).
> For a clean import without breaking DDL information in DB version control I
> would like to be able to switch between generated types as follows:
>
> ALTER TABLE table1 ALTER COLUMN col1 SET GENERATED BY DEFAULT [ AS IDENTITY]
> ALTER TABLE table1 ALTER COLUMN col1 SET GENERATED ALWAYS [ AS IDENTITY]
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