Re: ALTER TABLE & COLUMN

>>>>> "NC" == Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:

NC> problem leaving this in the hands of the admin. The one exception might
NC> be changing the length limit on a varchar(n) column, but that's such a
NC> small case I'm not sure it's worth the bother (and can be done by
NC> hacking the system catalogs anyway).

That's a PITA to do, and scares the willies out of mere mortals,
myself included.  Doing a add column, rename old, copy data, rename
new is also a PITA, and I'm not sure the effects of that on foreign
keys that my reference that column.

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