From: CoL <col@mportal.hu>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:48:30 +0100
Message-ID: <bnjlg9$1kv9$1@news.hub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64184.138.88.163.115.1067274631.squirrel@physics.gmu.edu>
References: <64184.138.88.163.115.1067274631.squirrel@physics.gmu.edu>
Hi,
mohan@physics.gmu.edu wrote, On 10/27/2003 6:10 PM:
> 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.
1 solution:
begin;
create temporary table temp as select * from mytable;
drop table mytable;
create table mytable (name varchar(50));
insert into mytable select CAST(name AS varchar(50)) from temp;
drop table temp;
commit;
C.
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