Re: alter table change type column

From: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: frank_lupo <frank_lupo(at)email(dot)it>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: alter table change type column
Date: 2003-03-24 17:04:00
Message-ID: 3E7F3A80.4040905@cvc.net
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And then redo all the triggers and indexes also?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> No, we have not implemented that. You can add a column, copy the data
> over from the old column, then drop the old column and rename the new
> column.
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> =?iso-8859-1?Q?frank=5Flupo?= wrote:
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>>Is possible to alter table change type of column?
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