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From
"Carlos Cobos"
Date:

hi people !
I'm trying to change a structure of a table but I don't know how a use alter
table in psql but doesn´t work always give me a  parser error can you
explein how to do by the why pgadmin don't have a plugins to do that
[root@dns1 root]# su -l postgres
bash-2.05$ psql iutepalsc
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
       \h for help with SQL commands
       \? for help on internal slash commands
       \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
       \q to quit

iutepalsc=# create table prueba ("id" varchar(8));
CREATE
iutepalsc=# alter  table prueba column ("id" varchar(15));
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "column"
iutepalsc=#








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Re:

From
Ligia Pimentel
Date:
try...

alter table prueba add column id varchar(15);

remember, for some reason, you can only add columns
one by one.

Good Luck.

Ligia Pimentel

--- Carlos Cobos <clcobosu@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> hi people !
> I'm trying to change a structure of a table but I
> don't know how a use alter
> table in psql but doesn�t work always give me a
> parser error can you
> explein how to do by the why pgadmin don't have a
> plugins to do that
> [root@dns1 root]# su -l postgres
> bash-2.05$ psql iutepalsc
> Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive
> terminal.
>
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help on internal slash commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute
> query
>        \q to quit
>
> iutepalsc=# create table prueba ("id" varchar(8));
> CREATE
> iutepalsc=# alter  table prueba column ("id"
> varchar(15));
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "column"
> iutepalsc=#
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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