Re: Change column type from int to bigint - quickest way - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Brandl
Subject Re: Change column type from int to bigint - quickest way
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Msg-id 1091750907.11313.1479324327866.JavaMail.zimbra@andreas-brandl.de
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In response to Re: Change column type from int to bigint - quickest way  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Merlin Moncure < mmoncure@gmail.com > wrote:

>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Andreas Brandl < mail@andreas-brandl.de >
>> wrote:

>> You just posted the same question a few days ago -- were the answers
>> there unsatisfactory?

> This seems to be a mail system provoked duplicate since Gmail is telling me
> this was sent 11/11 but I just received it yesterday. See my attribution
> quotes
> above.

My first post got bounced but re-appeared today - sorry about this.

The answers were very helpful indeed - thanks Tom and Merlin!

We ended up including the datatype change with the upgrade to 9.6. We're going to have a downtime for this anyways and
witha dump-restore-style upgrade this is fairly easy to change. 

Thanks again,
Andreas


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