I will try this out as soon as I can. Thanks to all who replied.
Rob Mosher
Tom Lane wrote:
>Rob Mosher <mosher@andrews.edu> writes:
>
>
>>Is there anyway I can change a field to allowing nulls without dumping
>>the table, dropping it, recreating it as desired, and filling all the
>>data back in?
>>
>>
>
>ALTER TABLE ... DROP NOT NULL does the trick in recent releases. Before
>that, you could resort to manually poking the attnotnull flag in
>the pg_attribute row for the field.
>
> regards, tom lane
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