Re: Finding Max Value in a Row

you can convert from type to type using ::varchar or ::char(size) or
::integer
so you can use sequence but you will have to convert it's result to
suitable type (that can also be put in default value of user_id attribute)

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Carlos Mennens <carlos(dot)mennens(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Thanks for all the help thus far everyone! I sadly didn't
> create/design the table and would love to create a SEQUENCE on that
> particular field but not sure how unless I DROP the table and create
> from scratch.
>
> Currently the data TYPE on the primary key field (users_id) is CHAR
> and I have no idea why...it should be NUMERIC or SERIAL but it's not
> so my question is if I want to ALTER the column and create a sequence,
> would I simply do:
>
> ALTER TABLE users
> ALTER COLUMN users_id TYPE serial
> ;
>
> Obviously if any of the data stored in users_id is actual CHAR, I'm
> guessing the database would reject that request to change type as the
> existing data would match. However the data type is CHAR but the field
> values are all numeric from 1000000010 - 1000000301 so I'm hoping that
> would work for SERIAL which is just INTEGER, right?
>
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