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From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Accommodating alternative column values
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 07:03:42 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wed, 3 Jul 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:

> What I've tried:
> bustrac=# alter table people alter column email set data type varchar(64) [];
> ERROR:  column "email" cannot be cast automatically to type character 
> varying[]
> HINT:  You might need to specify "USING email::character varying(64)[]".

What I forgot to mention is that the current datatype is varchar(64) and I
want to make it an array.

Rich

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