Re: Changing column types - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Lambert
Subject Re: Changing column types
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Msg-id 46B66346.7030809@autoledgers.com.au
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In response to Changing column types  (Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au>)
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Paul Lambert wrote:
> Owing to a problem with the way access and a couple of other programs
> I've found handle text columns in PG as something they call 'memo', I
> want to change all of the text columns in my database to varchar.
> There's about 600 text columns all up, so I'm looking for a quick way of
>  doing this.
>
> Is there any way, using the system catalogues - pg_tables, pg_attributes
> etc that I can automatically change all text type fields to varchar or
> am I better of just recreating the schema?
>

Ignore this message, I've found a solution on the ODBC side.

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Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
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