Re: ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DISTINCT

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DISTINCT
Date: 2009-04-06 11:30:52
Message-ID: 20090406113052.GB8123@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> Well, I think I was pretty clear about what I was trying to
> accomplish. I think there are more people who care about pg_dump
> output being diffable than there are who need to set ndistinct more
> accurately than 1 ppm and yet not as an integer. Perhaps if any of
> those people are reading this thread they could chime in. Otherwise,
> I will implement as you propose.

I do such diffs pretty often, but I don't think I've *ever* done it on
catalog tables.. Perhaps it'll come up in the future, but I doubt it.

Stephen

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