Re: ALTER TABLE TODO items

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.
        regards, tom lane