Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tomasz Myrta
Subject Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size
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Msg-id 3F9D59FC.8010407@klaster.net
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In response to URGENT!!! changing Column size  (mohan@physics.gmu.edu)
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Dnia 2003-10-27 18:10, Użytkownik mohan@physics.gmu.edu napisał:
> 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.

alter table institution add column tmp varchar2(50);
update institution set tmp=name;
alter table institution drop column name;
alter table institution rename tmp to name;

(or something like this)

Regards,
Tomasz Myrta



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