| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, ash <ash(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re-create dependent views on ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN ... TYPE? |
| Date: | 2014-06-03 20:31:55 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaFzxF4fHZf4RFatNuJjk9b8C5xjva3CSsymQUZAaV9DA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> If we had such a mechanism,
>> then perhaps someone could build a UI providing the sort of user
>> feedback you're suggesting to help them use it more safely. But isn't
>> the core server support the first thing?
>
> I'm guessing you did not read
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18723.1401734537@sss.pgh.pa.us
Argh, sorry, I saw that go by and it went past my eyes but obviously I
didn't really absorb it. I guess we could do it that way. But it
seems like quite a hassle to me; I think we're going to continue to
get complaints here until this is Easy. And if it can't be made Easy,
then we're going to continue to get complaints forever.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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