| From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> | 
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| To: | KÖPFERL Robert <robert(dot)koepferl(at)sonorys(dot)at> | 
| Cc: | "'pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Syntax error while altering col-type | 
| Date: | 2005-01-12 17:17:56 | 
| Message-ID: | 20050112171756.GA95208@winnie.fuhr.org | 
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:02:10PM +0100, KÖPFERL Robert wrote:
> ALTER TABLE "Mailboxes" ALTER COLUMN "Status" TYPE int4;
> 
> This shuld be no problem since the current type acutally is int4 and the
> names are copy'n'pasted. The server responds as follows:
> 
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "TYPE" at character 47
That's exactly the error you'd get on a pre-8.0 system that doesn't
support altering a column's type.  Are you looking at 8.0 documentation
but running a 7.x server?  What does "SELECT version();" show?
-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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