> -----Original Message-----
>
> That's exactly the error you'd get on a pre-8.0 system that doesn't
> support altering a column's type. Are you looking at 8.0
> documentation
> but running a 7.x server? What does "SELECT version();" show?
Yes, that's it. I am looking into an 8.0 doc while running 7.4.
I'm a little bit perplexed now... is it really the case that pre 8.0 systems
aren't able to change col-types?
thx
>
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> Michael Fuhr
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