> If we were willing to abuse the ALTER TABLE syntax some more, it would > be possible to support changing the datatypes of f1 and f2 > simultaneously, thereby allowing the above to work. The infrastructure > for hacking multiple tables in parallel is already there in CVS tip, > but it only gets exercised in cases involving inheritance.
I don't think we need to allow end users to do it via the grammar. Allowing an ALTER TYPE or ALTER DOMAIN to set up the multiple table transform is enough. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org