> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Merlin Moncure < mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Andreas Brandl < mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> wrote: >> You just posted the same question a few days ago -- were the answers >> there unsatisfactory? > This seems to be a mail system provoked duplicate since Gmail is telling me > this was sent 11/11 but I just received it yesterday. See my attribution > quotes > above. My first post got bounced but re-appeared today - sorry about this. The answers were very helpful indeed - thanks Tom and Merlin! We ended up including the datatype change with the upgrade to 9.6. We're going to have a downtime for this anyways and with a dump-restore-style upgrade this is fairly easy to change. Thanks again, Andreas -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general