Re: convert char to varchar

On 10/18/07, Peter Koczan <pjkoczan(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Is there any other way to clear trailing spaces when I restore the table?
>
> If you're running 8.x, you can do this in place:
>
> ALTER TABLE c1 ALTER COLUMN name varchar(20) USING rtrim(name), ALTER
> COLUMN date varchar(20) USING rtrim(date);
>
> This could take a long time if the table is large or has a lot of indexes on it.

Oops. The command should be:

ALTER TABLE c1 ALTER COLUMN name TYPE varchar(20) USING rtrim(name),
ALTER COLUMN date TYPE varchar(20) USING rtrim(date);

I forgot the TYPE keyword...it's important.

Peter