Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size

Dopping the whole database just for a column change? <br /><br /> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:00, Theodore Petrosky
wrote:<blockquote type="CITE"><pre><font color="#737373"><i>why not just 

pg_dump dbname > olddb.out
pico olddb.out

edit the section that defines the table
save and exit

dropdb dbname
createdb dbname

psql dbname < olddb.out

no fuss no muss...

Ted

--- mohan@physics.gmu.edu wrote:
> Hi can we change the size of a column in postgres. I
> have a table named
> institution and column name is name varchar2(25), i
> want to change it to
> varchar2(50). Please let me know.
>
> --Mohan
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