Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Vik Fearing (vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
>> We generally discourage updating the catalogs directly. This was why I
>> wrote the CREATE/ALTER DATABASE patch in 2014 that you helped me with
>> (fbb1d7d73f8).
>> I'm willing to work on a patch for ALTER TYPE if it has a chance of
>> being accepted.
> Seems pretty clear that it'd be a useful thing to have, so +1 from me,
> at least.
We'd have to be extremely circumspect about what aspects of a base
type could be altered after-the-fact. Adding binary I/O functions
seems unproblematic, but I'm not very sure what else is.
regards, tom lane
