From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: ROUWEZ Stephane <stephane.rouwez@ecolo.be>
Cc: 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Cc: LESNE Philippe <philippe.lesne@ecolo.be>
Subject: Re: Change size of a field
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:49:41 +0300 (EEST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207261546030.7428-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8126A160E6D1D1119AFF00A0CC5C8B0F01228E7C@FEDERAL>
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to change the size of a field ?
> Actually, I have a field called 'nom' in varchar(50) and I want this field
> in varchar(80).
> I can't do it with PgAdmin. Is it normal ?
Pretty normal!
just
1) % pg_dump -t <tablename> <dbname> > <tablename>-DUMP.sql
2) % psql
# drop sequence <tablename>_id_seq;
3) vi <tablename>-DUMP.sql
change your varchar(50) to varchar(80)
4) psql
#\i <tablename>-DUMP.sql
There you go
>
> Tanks
>
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