Re: URGENT!!! changing Column size

why not just

pg_dump dbname > olddb.out
pico olddb.out

edit the section that defines the table
save and exit

dropdb dbname
createdb dbname

psql dbname < olddb.out

no fuss no muss...

Ted

--- mohan(at)physics(dot)gmu(dot)edu wrote:
> Hi can we change the size of a column in postgres. I
> have a table named
> institution and column name is name varchar2(25), i
> want to change it to
> varchar2(50). Please let me know.
>
> --Mohan
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