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From	Josh Berkus
Subject	Re: Missing doc on expression format for ALTER TABLE
Date	March 28, 2005 02:07:10
Msg-id	200503271711.44046.josh@agliodbs.com Whole thread Raw
In response to	Re: Missing doc on expression format for ALTER TABLE (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,

>     ALTER [ COLUMN ] column TYPE type [ USING expression ]
>
> Surely you're not expecting it to repeat the complete syntax for
> <expression>.

Well, yes, actually.  Where in the documentation is a type conversion
expression defined?   Do we use NEW and OLD?  Or the name of the column?  Or
something else?

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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