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Re: [BUGS] BUG #4689: Expanding the length of a VARCHAR column should not induce a table rewrite - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Guillaume Smet
Subject Re: [BUGS] BUG #4689: Expanding the length of a VARCHAR column should not induce a table rewrite
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> The question is how you want to implement this in a data type independent
> fashion.  You can't assume that increasing the typmod is a noop for all data
> types.

Sure. See my previous answer on -hackers (I don't think this
discussion belong to -bugs) and especially the discussion in the
archives about Jonas' patch.

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Guillaume

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