* ALTER COLUMN TYPE. You can change a column's datatype to anything you
want, so long as you can specify how to convert the old value. Rewrites
the table. (Possible future improvement: optimize no-op conversions such
as varchar(N) to varchar(N+1).)
That seriously
CVSROOT:/cvsroot
Module name:pgsql-server
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/05/05 01:48:48
Modified files:
doc/src/sgml/ref: alter_table.sgml
src/backend/bootstrap: bootparse.y
src/backend/catalog: dependency.c heap.c index.c
src/backend/comm
> OK, patch reverted at request of Tom and Peter. Please propose a more
> generalitzed soluion. Thanks.
Sigh.
You refuse a 10 lines patch to access a stupid opaque type in the backend.
You both refuse some things to be done in the back end, and also to add
what is needed to do it in userland.
Dear Tom,
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/functions-misc.html
> Arguably these functions do not belong right there, but that's hardly a
> reason to think that they do not need documentation.
Sure. I was planing to add something anyway.
> Personally, though, I think that Peter's
> > Please find a attached a small patch that adds accessor functions
> > for "aclitem" so that it is not an opaque datatype.
>
> Shouldn't this patch include some documentation updates?
Well I thought about that, but I wasn't sure were to put it.
There is no documentation at all about th
