Hi,
Kodok Marton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have in every table columns like:
> username character varying(20) NOT NULL
>
> I want to extend the length of varchar in all tables.
next time you should probably consider using a domain type
(or stick to text)
> Since I have a lot of tables and mirrored backups, I am wondering if
> there is a way to alter automatically all tables where colname matches
> 'username'
>
> Is there a way to do this?
It should be possible to generate a list of tables either via
query or using pg_dump -L with grep and create SQL based on this
(with a script, unix shell) and execute it against the database.
(Test this of course)
HTH
Tino
