Re: ALTER composite type does not work, but ALTER TABLE which ROWTYPE is used as a type - works fine

Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>     
>>> Dmitry Koterov wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Could you please say, if ALTER TYPE ... ADD COLUMN is planned for a future
>>>> PostgreSQL version?
>>>>         
>>> It is not currently on the TODO list.
>>>       
>> Perhaps we could add it?  It's been complained about more than once in
>> this space.
>>     
>
> Well, new features that have a perfectly acceptable and usable
> workaround typically have a fairly low priority of fixing :-)
>
> Since tables are basically types, I'm not sure what the difference is
> between tables and composite types (meaning, why do we have the
> composite type syntax at all?)  I'm not sure if this came up during
> the design discussion or not.
>
>
>   

Your "workaround" involves have a redundant table that you don't ever 
intend to populate.

cheers

andrew