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 4CD3452B.4050307@ultimeth.com
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In response to Re: Changing boolean to a smallint  ("Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@ultimeth.com>)
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Oops;  see correction below:

On 2010-11-04 16:41, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote:
> 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 table_name ALTER col_name TYPE SMALLINT
>   USING CASE WHEN col_name THEN 1 ELSE 0 END;
>

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