Re: changing data type

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, D. Duccini wrote:

> My approach is "generic" and works across just about every SQL database
> manager out there....

That's fine, if one has the luxury of doing that, but dumping the data or
rebuilding tables won't work in, say, a CGI script where the data needs to
be converted on the fly.  You also said that there wasn't a way to do it
in PostgreSQL 6.x, and it's right there in the docs for PostgreSQL 6.x.

Brett W. McCoy
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