Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> 
>>Wow, you can reference different column as part of the alter column.
> 
> 
> Yeah, the USING is actually any arbitrary expression over the old table
> row.  (Getting that to work was a tad tricky...)  So you can view this
> as a full-table UPDATE operation that folds in possible column type changes.

Does that mean I'll want to disable triggers while I do this? Actually, 
if the structure's changing I presume I'll want to drop/recreate my 
triggers anyway (even if they get reparsed like view definitions).

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd