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From Aras Angelo
Subject trying to alter column
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Msg-id 5136d4130908191720q2bcd2cffo2db54da183d793f2@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: trying to alter column  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Im trying to alter a column type from character varying(8) to int.
All the values in the column are numbers but im getting this message

column "xxxxxx" cannot be cast to type integer

Dropping and readding the column is an option but downtime is very critical to us, so i was wondering
if im doing something wrong and i can alter type somehow.
 

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