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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Altering a column type - Most efficient way
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Msg-id 20080710135756.GD3757@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Altering a column type - Most efficient way  (Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>)
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Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> This is what I see on the table
>
> NEW attypmod = -1
> OLD attypmod =  8

8 means varchar(4) which is what you said you had (4+4)
-1 means unlimited size.


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