having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure. 2. being a machine; operated by machinery: a mechanical toy. 3. caused by or derived from machinery: mechanical propulsion.
ERROR: cannot alter type of a column used by a view or rule DETAIL: rule _RETURN on view v_change_me depends on column too_short. Though PostgreSQL tells us which view and column prompted this error, thatâs the last favor it provides.
For example: If you have your data in an [n]text or image column in a SQL Server database, you can import the table by using Integration Services. Change the column type to XML by using the ALTER TABLE statement.