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From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
Organization: Ringways Garages Ltd
To: mohan@physics.gmu.edu, <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:50:03 +0000
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On Monday 27 Oct 2003 5:10 pm, 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

try 

alter table institution add column newname varchar2(50);
update institution set newname = name;
alter table institution drop column namel;
alter table institution rename column newname to name;


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