Bjørn T Johansen <btj@havleik.no> writes:
> Is it possible to alter field type (from varchar to text) without making a new
> table?
You can add a new column, update the table to set the new column to the old
value. then drop the old column. Then you might want to vacuum full the table.
In 8.0 there will be a command to do what you want, but it will still have to
do all the same work as I described above.
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greg
