Re: Altering column collation

On 19 July 2011 08:32, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 00:48 +0100, Thom Brown wrote:
>> [...]
>> Attached is a patch which fixes #328.  Currently if you change a
>> column's collation, it actually drops the column.  This changes it so
>> that it issues an ALTER TYPE to adjust the collation instead.
>>
>
> Pushed on master. Thanks for yet another patch :)
>
> I didn't push it on 1.14 yet. The patch doesn't work here, and I guess
> it's because I didn't push your previous patch. I'm not sure on the best
> move here. Should we simply remove the bug (no change detected when
> changing collation on the column properties dialog)? or should we apply
> both patches (which will give us bugfix, and better handling of
> columns)? Any ideas?

Why can't we apply the patch to 1.14?  I don't recall making any
previous changes to dlgColumn.cpp.  I just switched to 1.14,
fast-forwarded all updates, applied the patch, built it, and it
behaves correctly.

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