On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:46:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
The concerns that I find more interesting are changes in the underlying
objects. We don't have an ALTER OPERATOR CLASS, much less an ALTER
ACCESS METHOD, but it's certainly theoretically possible to change the
definition of a support
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:46:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But you couldn't make any meaningful changes in the definition of an
index, such as changing its column set, operator classes, partial-index
predicate, etc,
Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How would this affect changing the type of a column?
It doesn't, because we drop and rebuild indexes completely during ALTER
COLUMN TYPE.
regards, tom lane
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I've been working on getting the system to pass regression tests cleanly
when forcing a cache flush at every possible instant. The main tests
pass now (in 8.1 --- HEAD remains broken pending lookup_rowtype_tupdesc
fix), but contrib is still crashing. On investigation the problem turns
out to be
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This would still support REINDEX (which changes pg_class.relfilenode in
order to replace the physical file) and ALTER INDEX SET TABLESPACE.
But you couldn't make any meaningful changes in the definition of an
index, such as changing its column set, operator
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But you couldn't make any meaningful changes in the definition of an
index, such as changing its column set, operator classes, partial-index
predicate, etc, except by dropping and recreating it.
The only example that
