On 1/19/07, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: > > ALTER TABLE, to be correct, actually has to check the entire table to > make sure it's ok. By doing it directly you're basically telling the DB > it's OK. > > For making a varchar column longer it's safe though, and the easiest way.
Is it possible to use a similar method to change a varchar(n) to text with no length constraint?
-K
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