[GENERAL] Altering a column type w/o dropping views

2008-07-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm going to alter a bunch a tables columns's data type and I'm being forced to drop a view which depends on the the colum. eg: ALTER TABLE xs.d_trh ALTER m_dcm TYPE character varying; ERROR: cannot alter type of a column used by a view or rule DETAIL: rule _RETURN on view v_hpp depends on

Re: [GENERAL] Altering a column type w/o dropping views

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:53:58PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I'm going to alter a bunch a tables columns's data type and I'm being forced to drop a view which depends on the the colum. Why is that a problem? If you keep your object definitions in files (e.g., in a directory structure that's