doing via shell is one way (long way if you use Windows),
is it possible by updateding postgresql master tables?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tino Wildenhain" <t...@wildenhain.de>
To: "Kodok Marton" <mar...@mybusinessanywhere.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] alter multiple tables


Hi,

Kodok Marton wrote:
Hello,
I have in every table columns like:
username character varying(20) NOT NULL
I want to extend the length of varchar in all tables.

next time you should probably consider using a domain type
(or stick to text)

Since I have a lot of tables and mirrored backups, I am wondering if there is a way to alter automatically all tables where colname matches 'username' Is there a way to do this?

It should be possible to generate a list of tables either via
query or using pg_dump -L with grep and create SQL based on this
(with a script, unix shell) and execute it against the database.

(Test this of course)

HTH
Tino


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