Re: ALTER composite type does not work, but ALTER TABLE which ROWTYPE is used as a type - works fine

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, dmitry(at)koterov(dot)ru, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ALTER composite type does not work, but ALTER TABLE which ROWTYPE is used as a type - works fine
Date: 2008-12-10 14:24:35
Message-ID: 603c8f070812100624j1858ee35o3d8498df6a288ce6@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> Allow ALTER TYPE to add, rename, change the type of, and drop columns?
>
> That seems kind of vague because my first reaction is that a type
> doesn't have columns, but you are talking about composite types, right?

Right.

> I have added this TODO item:
>
> Allow ALTER TYPE on composite types to perform operations similar to
> ALTER TABLE
>
> * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00245.php

Sounds good.

...Robert

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