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Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-05-06T01:45:03Z
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> 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.

All I can say is three cheers for Tom and Rod on this one!!!!

Chris