Re: Admin tools with the ability to alter a field type?

From: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>
To: "Joel Fradkin" <jfradkin(at)wazagua(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Admin tools with the ability to alter a field type?
Date: 2005-03-24 18:36:09
Message-ID: 9716051C-9C93-11D9-A708-000A95B03262@pgedit.com
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On Mar 24, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Joel Fradkin wrote:

> I asked this once before and got one response that I did not
> understand completely.
>
> Is there a tool that allows modification to a field type.
>
> The answer I got last time indicated that in 8.0 there was a command
> to do it by in a sql statement.
>
> But I did not understand that syntax well enough from the response.
>
> Any one do this in 8 (I am on 8.01) or no of a gui tool?

phpPgAdmin has an interface for altering column types.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

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