Re: Changing boolean to a smallint - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
Subject Re: Changing boolean to a smallint
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Msg-id 4CD3448D.60208@ultimeth.com
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In response to Changing boolean to a smallint  (Christine Penner <chris@fp2.ca>)
Responses Re: Changing boolean to a smallint  ("Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@ultimeth.com>)
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On 2010-11-04 15:41, Christine Penner wrote:
> I have a table column I want to change from a boolean to a smallint.
> changing false to 0 and true to 1. How do I do that?
>
> Christine Penner
> Ingenious Software
> 250-352-9495
> chris@fp2.ca

ALTER TABLE ALTER col_name TYPE SMALLINT
   USING CASE WHEN col_name THEN 1 ELSE 0 END;

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