From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: atul@imcindia.net
Cc: xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Andreas.Pflug@web.de
Subject: Re: How to increase Column width of table
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:08:34 +0100
Message-ID: <3E816001.90019E7A@rodos.fzk.de> (raw)
>
> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1071582
>
resp.
>
> You can rename your old column, create a new column varchar(100),
update
> ... set newCol=oldCol, drop oldCol and rename newCol to oldCol
> See ALTER TABLE doc for this.
>
Ok, this is the accurate solution to minimize side effects.
Thanks to Robert and Andreas for pointing this out.
Regards, Christoph
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