Re: full featured alter table?

I would agree with you Sven, I really like that feature to be added too, 
because that's one of the important reasons I still prefer mysql 
whenever I don't have to use other features that postgres has.

- reynard

Sven Koehler wrote:

> In other word, nobody cares about that at the moment, and so this will 
> not be implemented.
>
> something i hate most about opensource movement are these comments 
> like "submit a patch". your staments are not that rough, but i'd need 
> more time to get into the code than to implement the feature.
> so if this feature was never foreseen, than it might get a heavy task, 
> and it might be even havier in a few years to implement that.
>
> even a tool could help to improve that. perhaps pgAdmin could be 
> teached to change a column's type by performing the steps it would need.
>
> i'll submit a feature-request to the pgadmin team.