Standard SQL commands - are they in 6.5?

The following doesn't work in 6.xxx. Will it work  in 6.5????

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A standard SQL command to do this would be

ALTER TABLE tablename MODIFY existingColumnName CHAR( 24 );

Ian Macdonald


At 06:47 PM 6/1/99 +1000, you wrote:
>This message posted by: "Robert Chalmers" <robert@chalmers.com.au>
>
>Is it possible to increase a column, or field's width. I have a 12
character
>size field that I would really like to increase to 24, but can't see a way
>of doing it in the pgsql documentation...
>
>
>Does anyone know if it can be done?
>
>Thanks
>Robert


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