Subject: Re: changing varchar to int
To: Ankur Kaushik <ankurkaushik@gmail.com>,
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From: Ian Barwick <ian@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:41:02 +0900
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On 15/07/23 16:27, Ankur Kaushik wrote:
> Original column
> 
> 
> 
> Column                   Type                                 Modifiers
> model                | character varying(50)       | default NULL::character varying
> 
> 
> Required Column
> 
> Model                   integer
> 
> 
> =========
> ALTER TABLE device ALTER COLUMN model TYPE integer USING (model::integer);
> 
> 
> getting below error
> 
> ERROR:  default for column "model" cannot be cast automatically to type integer

You'll need to drop the column default and re-add it after converting the
column.


Regards

Ian Barwick

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