On 19/08/2019 19:32, Tom Lane wrote: > "Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson" <joh...@myrkraverk.com> writes: >> I meant ALTER TYPE. Adding the send and recv functions doesn't seem >> to supported by ALTER TYPE. >> Is there a workaround for this? > You could manually update the pg_type row, and then if you were > being fussy, add pg_depend entries showing the type depends on > the functions.
We generally discourage updating the catalogs directly. This was why I wrote the CREATE/ALTER DATABASE patch in 2014 that you helped me with (fbb1d7d73f8). I'm willing to work on a patch for ALTER TYPE if it has a chance of being accepted. -- Vik Fearing
