From: Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5@yahoo.com>
To: mohan@physics.gmu.edu
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:00:52 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20031028130052.54133.qmail@web41010.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64184.138.88.163.115.1067274631.squirrel@physics.gmu.edu>
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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