I wrote: > No, that is an actual on-disk change (making the field physically > wider), so it's going to cost ya. There are some cases where the > on-disk representation doesn't change and so a catalog update isn't > needed, but int4->int8 isn't one of them. Sheesh, hit send too quickly on that. Of course I meant "and so a catalog update is all that's needed". regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
