pgsql: Update ALTER TABLE docs to mention using VACUUM FULL for rewrite - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Robert Haas
Subject pgsql: Update ALTER TABLE docs to mention using VACUUM FULL for rewrite
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Msg-id E1PlQ5u-0002xx-B7@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Update ALTER TABLE docs to mention using VACUUM FULL for rewrites.

Remove the claim that ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE is the fastest way of
rewriting a table, since it no longer is.

Noah Misch and Robert Haas, based on a suggestion from Tom Lane.

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master

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http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=edad08ba545b43261b4d54d65122b45c9b5ee801

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doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml |   23 ++++++++---------------
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)


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