Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN

2006-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
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 assumptions

Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN

2006-10-26 Thread Jonah H. Harris
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

Re: [PATCHES] Eliminating phase 3 requirement for varlen increases via ALTER COLUMN

2006-10-26 Thread Tom Lane
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 the field on a