Re: Help changing varchar field

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:33:52AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> AFAIK there's no easy way to do this. Essentially you'll need to create
> a new field of varchar(15), copy the contents of varchar(6), drop
> varchar(6), then rename varchar(15). I'd recommend doing it all in one
> transaction.

You can also set atttypmod to 15+4 (right now it should be 6+4) to the
attribute in pg_attribute.

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