Re: [INTERFACES] How do I drop a column from a table?

> Hi,
> 
> I'm still quite new at this but it should be a simple operation:  How do I
> drop a column form a Postgres table.  The next best thing would be knowing
> how to change a column so that it can accept null values.
> 
> Any takers?
Hi Robert, 

I don't know how to email all in elm, so if you could forward this to the
list
for verification I would appreciate.

Anyway, I don't think you can drop a column.  What you can do is create a 
new table by doing a select into the new table (leaving out the columns you
don't  want) and then droping the old table.  Once the old table is dropped 
you can rename the new to the old one's name:
  select f1,f2...,fn into table newtable from oldtable;  drop table oldtable;  alter table newtable rename to
oldtable;

Hope this helps...james

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Robert Carbonari
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Optimal Robotics Corp.
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