Re: How to modify type in table? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Albert REINER
Subject Re: How to modify type in table?
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Msg-id 20010205183919.B1866@frithjof
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In response to How to modify type in table?  ("Jaruwan Laongmal" <jaruwan@gits.net.th>)
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Saluton,

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:22:23AM +0700, Jaruwan Laongmal wrote:
> Dear Sir.
> Would you like to inform me how to modify type in table?
> For example , I define type as varchar(14) , but I want to modify to varchar(120). How to do this.

If it is not too much data, the easiest would be to use pg_dump to
dump the database (or just the table), edit the definition, and feed
the changed file to psql in order to get the data back. Or you can
create a different table with the correct structure, copy the data
there, drop the old table, rename the new one to the correct one.

Albert.


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