Re: Change of data type

On pg8, to change tab.col to type t:
 alter table tab alter column col type t

so: alter table tab alter column material type text

-j


Judith wrote:

>    Hello everybody, excuse me how can I change de data type of a 
> field, I currently have:
>      material character(30) 
>    but I now want the field in text type like this:
>  
>    material  text
>
>    somebody knows if ALTER TABLE has some option to do this?, or How 
> can I do that?
>
>
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