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.
To use an object type in a column definition when modifying a table, either that object must belong to the same schema as the table being altered, or you must have either the EXECUTE ANY TYPE system privilege or the EXECUTE schema object privilege for the object type.