Re: changing varchar to int - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On 15/07/23 16:27, Ankur Kaushik wrote:
> Original column
>
>
>
> Column                   Type                                 Modifiers
> model                | character varying(50)       | default NULL::character varying
>
>
> Required Column
>
> Model                   integer
>
>
> =========
> ALTER TABLE device ALTER COLUMN model TYPE integer USING (model::integer);
>
>
> getting below error
>
> ERROR:  default for column "model" cannot be cast automatically to type integer

You'll need to drop the column default and re-add it after converting the
column.


Regards

Ian Barwick

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