Noah Misch writes:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 03:41:49PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> In any case, we oughta use two different error messages for the two cases,
>>> as per my comment in the above thread. That seems like a back-patchable
>>>
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 03:41:49PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Specifically, it's not clear why you can change the type of a uuid[]
> > column with
> >
> > alter table t alter u type text[];
> >
> > but then you can't change it back with
> >
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> A recent thread in pgsql-general shows yet another user who's befuddled by
> the need to add a USING clause to an ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN TYPE
> command:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAD25zGDiaqCG=eqXp=byvzcdgvcqubh7kbpjpjqse
A recent thread in pgsql-general shows yet another user who's befuddled by
the need to add a USING clause to an ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN TYPE
command:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAD25zGDiaqCG=eqXp=byvzcdgvcqubh7kbpjpjqsespowfv...@mail.gmail.com
Specifically, it's not clear why
