Re: Need to change the size of a field

I don't think you can alter a column in the current version, but here's an
example of a workaround that should do the job:

create table change_me (id int, text varchar(20));

[Then I add some data & decide I need to widen the text field without losing
the data.]

create table temp_change_me as select * from change_me;

drop table change_me;

create table change_me (id int, text varchar(50));

insert into change_me (id, text) (select id, text from temp_change_me);

drop table temp_change_me;

hth, Nick



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> [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of suresh@mithi.com
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:31 AM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: [SQL] Need to change the size of a field
>
>
> Hi
>
> I have a table with one of the fields as a varchar(32) field.
> This table has
> about 100,000 records.
> I want to increase the size of the varchar field to 64. How can
> this be done
> without affecting the data already present  ?
> Thanx in advance.
> regards
> suresh
>
>
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