Hi,
[ concerning handling a change in a single datatype's representation ]
1. Under old system, munge the system catalog to add code for new inet
type with new OID. Probably needs a shared lib (if you could create
type input/output function with pl/pgsql it would help here).
2. Execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE USING to switch to the new type.
3. Shutdown old server
4. Complete catalog changes
5. Startup new version
Probably easier and more flexible just to include both versions of the
datatype in the new release, and tell people they'd better ALTER COLUMN
TYPE sometime before updating to release N+2.
Sounds very nice to have for me! Add an easy way to see which columns are
still in the old format, and upgrading will be so much easier.
- Sander
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