Re: Making a varchar bigger

It is combined with another field to form an index.
Does that mean a re-indexing will be required? or are there other issues?

On December 30, 2004 11:03 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Derik Barclay <dbarclay(at)givex(dot)com> writes:
> > Specificaly I am looking at executing something like this:
> > UPDATE pg_attribute SET atttypmod = 16 where attname = 'x' AND attrelid =
> > (select pg_class.oid from pg_class where relname = 'mytable');
>
> If you have any indexes or views referencing this column, then it's a
> bit harder. But for the table itself I believe that will work.
>
> regards, tom lane

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