Re: Wiki Page Draft for upcoming release

On 2014-03-18 19:28:53 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> It would be nice to be able to tell people that if they vacuum, then
> reindex and check all their foreign key constraints then they should
> be ok.

I don't think so:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20140317233919.GS16438%40awork2.anarazel.de

I still think a rewriting noop ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN col TYPE
old_type USING (col); is the only real thing to do.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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