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Robert Haas authored
Initially, we use this only to eliminate calls to the varchar() function in cases where the length is not being reduced and, therefore, the function call is equivalent to a RelabelType operation. The most significant effect of this is that we can avoid a table rewrite when changing a varchar(X) column to a varchar(Y) column, where Y > X. Noah Misch, reviewed by me and Alexey Klyukin
Robert Haas authoredInitially, we use this only to eliminate calls to the varchar() function in cases where the length is not being reduced and, therefore, the function call is equivalent to a RelabelType operation. The most significant effect of this is that we can avoid a table rewrite when changing a varchar(X) column to a varchar(Y) column, where Y > X. Noah Misch, reviewed by me and Alexey Klyukin