so i can? if so, how do i go about? i should mention that, while i dabble in postgres dba activity, it is not my day job...
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wrote: > > No, that is an actual on-disk change (making the field physically > > wider), so it's going to cost ya. There are some cases where the > > on-disk representation doesn't change and so a catalog update isn't > > needed, but int4->int8 isn't one of them. > > Sheesh, hit send too quickly on that. Of course I meant "and so a > catalog update is all that's needed". > > regards, tom lane > -- Jeffrey D. Adams National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Protected Resources 1315 East West Hwy, Building SSMC3 Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282 phone: (301) 427-8434 fax: (301) 713-0376
