IPAC table append problem

[drtgrav]

When trying to append together two IPAC tables that have the same columns I run into a problem that string columns are of different type (|S7 vs |S5). Is there a way to get around this problem or make the new table use the larger of the two string types?

[astrofrog]

For the moment there is no easy way to fix this other than taking the table which has the '|S5' column, creating a new column with data type '|S7' with the same contents, removing the old column, and renaming the new column before appending. However, this should of course not be necessary, and we are going to be working on fixing that!