Re: [1.4rc1] Can't change column type

I get a lot of benefit out of PGAdmin without that functionality.
It's actually a database limitation, not a PGAdmin limitation.

However, if your main database activity is changing the data type of a
column in ways that are disallowed by PostGreSQL, then you are
correct. PGAdmin is pointless.

Sim Zacks
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Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld <at> Askesis.nl> writes:
> Does this work (replace the names according to your schema)?
>
> BEGIN;
> ALTER TABLE table_name ADD COLUMN new_column varchar(64)?;
> UPDATE table_name SET new_column = column;
> ALTER TABLE customer RENAME column TO old_column;
> ALTER TABLE customer RENAME new_column TO columns;
> COMMIT;

In the end, I did this plu I dropped the old column, but what's the point of
having a tool like pgAdmin if common place everyday activities like this can't
be done?

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