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Re: ALTER TYPE recursion to typed tables

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-02T18:17:16Z
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On tis, 2010-11-02 at 10:54 -0700, Robert Haas wrote:
> What do you plan to do about this case?
> 
> CREATE TYPE test_type AS (a int, b text);
> CREATE TABLE test_tbl (x test_type);
> ALTER TYPE test_type ADD ATTRIBUTE c text;

This is currently prohibited, and I'm not planning to do anything about
that.