> Hm, you're right, 'thou I wouldn't recommend this to the average user, > and wonder if this will be possible for all future pgsql versions too. > I'm considering adding safe support for this type of column change to > pgAdmin3. > There might be other cases of legal direct change of system catalog > entries, e,g. varchar to text, if they all are only names for internally > identical data structures. Can you tell which datatypes may be legally > interchanged?
Yes, you can check if they're binary compatible from the pg_cast table.... Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
