On 10/26/06, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think what you want is to add a new method entry in pg_type to
allow a type to declare a method to tell you whether a change
is work-free or not. Then any type, even user-defined types,
can allow some changes to be work-free and some not wit
"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 10/26/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This makes some really quite unacceptable assumptions about
>> the meaning and encoding of typmod ...
>
> True, so VARCHAR seems like the only one? That's the only one I've
> really encountered in
"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 10/26/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This makes some really quite unacceptable assumptions about
>> the meaning and encoding of typmod ...
> True, so VARCHAR seems like the only one? That's the only one I've
> really encountered in th
On 10/26/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This makes some really quite unacceptable assumptions about
the meaning and encoding of typmod ...
True, so VARCHAR seems like the only one? That's the only one I've
really encountered in the field on a fairly regular basis.
I'm also wondering
"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The attached patch handles the simple case where a user wants to
> increase the user-defined storage size of a variable length object,
> such as VARCHAR or NUMERIC, without having to rebuild the table.
This makes some really quite unacceptable assump
