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From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
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	Andreas.Pflug@web.de
Subject: Re: How to increase Column width of table
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> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1071582
>
resp.
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> 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