Re: [GENERAL] Altering a table with a rowtype column

2012-03-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Mike Blackwell wrote: > As a followup, the workaround fails if there is data in the source table due > to the initial null value placed in the existing data rows. > > [wcs1459@aclnx-cisp01 ~]$ psql --port=5433 -e -f x > begin; > BEGIN > create table a ( >   id seria

Re: [GENERAL] Altering a table with a rowtype column

2012-03-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Mike Blackwell wrote: > > works for me -- what version are you on? > > merlin > > -- > > [wcs1459@aclnx-cisp01 ~]$ psql --version > psql (PostgreSQL) 9.1.1 > contains support for command-line editing > > > [wcs1459@aclnx-cisp01 ~]$ cat x > create table a ( >  

Re: [GENERAL] Altering a table with a rowtype column

2012-03-07 Thread Mike Blackwell
> > > works for me -- what version are you on? > > merlin > > -- > > [wcs1459@aclnx-cisp01 ~]$ psql --version > psql (PostgreSQL) 9.1.1 > contains support for command-line editing > > > [wcs1459@aclnx-cisp01 ~]$ cat x > create table a ( > id serial, > stuff text, > more_stuff text > ); >

Re: [GENERAL] Altering a table with a rowtype column

2012-03-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Mike Blackwell wrote: > Given a pair of tables: > > create table a ( >   id serial, >   stuff text, >   more_stuff text > ); > > create table a_audit ( >   id serial, >   old_record a, >   new_record a > ); > > How can one alter the structure of table a?  Attemptin