Hello Mr. Burton,
I am fairly sure that the only column altering operations that Postgres
currently supports are changing the name and the default value. (look under
alter table in the docs)
Sorry,
David Boerwinkle
-----Original Message-----
From: James M . Burton <jburton@bfsmedia.com>
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:27 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] change column after creation?
>is it possible to change or alter a column after it is created?
>
>i created a column that i set at 50 characters and would like to change
that to a higher number.
>
>is there some way of doing that? i only ever come across "alter column" in
the todo lists for postgresql but have not come across a syntax example in
normal docs.
>
>
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