Guys,
> > Well, yes, actually. Where in the documentation is a type conversion
> > expression defined? Do we use NEW and OLD? Or the name of the column?
> > Or something else?
>
> I think the ALTER TABLE page is in dire need of a "See also" section, at
> least. And a reference to where is d
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 08:54:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ISTM it would be very useful if the docs specified what version a
> > feature that would break in older versions was implemented in. The
> > example that comes to mind is argument names in CRE
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:11:43PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > ALTER [ COLUMN ] column TYPE type [ USING expression ]
> >
> > Surely you're not expecting it to repeat the complete syntax for
> > .
>
> Well, yes, actually. Where in the documentation is a type conversion
> expression define
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ISTM it would be very useful if the docs specified what version a
> feature that would break in older versions was implemented in. The
> example that comes to mind is argument names in CREATE FUNCTION, which
> was added in 8.0. The 8.0 docs (http://lnk.n
Tom,
> ALTER [ COLUMN ] column TYPE type [ USING expression ]
>
> Surely you're not expecting it to repeat the complete syntax for
> .
Well, yes, actually. Where in the documentation is a type conversion
expression defined? Do we use NEW and OLD? Or the name of the column? Or
somethi
Josh, David-
Do you think it's worth adding a function that would do the select for
you? IE: tuplecount('schema', 'tablename')?
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 07:19:00PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> David,
>
> If Jim and I finish our work for 8.1, then you'll be able to do:
>
> SELECT approx_records FR
ISTM it would be very useful if the docs specified what version a
feature that would break in older versions was implemented in. The
example that comes to mind is argument names in CREATE FUNCTION, which
was added in 8.0. The 8.0 docs (http://lnk.nu/postgresql.org/1y3.html)
mention the ability to n
