From: Franco Bruno Borghesi <franco@akyasociados.com.ar>
To: Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5@yahoo.com>
Cc: mohan@physics.gmu.edu
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:28:50 -0300
Message-ID: <1067347729.756.0.camel@taz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031028130052.54133.qmail@web41010.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20031028130052.54133.qmail@web41010.mail.yahoo.com>
Dopping the whole database just for a column change?
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:00, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> why not just
>
> pg_dump dbname > olddb.out
> pico olddb.out
>
> edit the section that defines the table
> save and exit
>
> dropdb dbname
> createdb dbname
>
> psql dbname < olddb.out
>
> no fuss no muss...
>
> Ted
>
> --- mohan@physics.gmu.edu wrote:
> > Hi can we change the size of a column in postgres. I
> > have a table named
> > institution and column name is name varchar2(25), i
> > want to change it to
> > varchar2(50). Please let me know.
> >
> > --Mohan
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