Re: Modifying check constraints

>>>>> "SS" == Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> writes:

SS> If you can have downtime, you might just want to look at making the
SS> new table and using insert into to copy the data and rename the tables
SS> around.  This is kinda unhappy with foreign keys and more complicated
SS> constructs, but in general is less likely to cause you grief.

Unfortunately, I have plenty of foreign keys and *TONS* of data in
that table, and downtime is undesirable, but possible.

I'm gonna try the constraint surgery, as it seems to work.

Thanks.

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