| From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER TYPE 0: Introduction; test cases |
| Date: | 2011-01-11 13:14:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20110111131441.GB32672@tornado.leadboat.com |
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:27:46AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> > True. ?At least we could completely document the lock choices on the ALTER TABLE
> > reference page. ?The no-rewrite cases are defined at arms length from ALTER
> > TABLE, and users can define their own, so it's a tougher fit.
>
> I don't think it's prohibitively, tough, though, and I think it would
> be very valuable. We may have to scratch our heads over exactly where
> to put the information, but we can figure out something that works.
Agreed. I don't mean to suggest giving up on documenting anything, just that
some behaviors are clear enough by documentation alone, while others benefit
from additional syntax/messages to constrain/see what actually happens.
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