From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: eric@vianet-express.com.br
Subject: Re: alter column witdh
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:07:11 +0200
Message-ID: <3ED37F1F.3060209@rodos.fzk.de> (raw)
>
> how can I alter the column width
>
Something like
begin ;
alter table foo rename column b to b_old ;
alter table foo add column b_new character(20) ;
update foo set b_new = b_old ;
alter table foo drop column b_old ;
alter table foo rename column b_new to b ;
commit ;
does the trick. Refer to the archives too.
Regards, Christoph
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