I'm altering datatypes in several tables from numeric to integer. In doing so, I get the following error:
dw=# \d uniq_hits Table "support.uniq_hits" Column | Type | Modifiers ------------+---------+----------- sourceid | numeric | hitdate | date | total | numeric | hitdate_id | integer | Indexes: "uniq_hits_hitdateid_idx" btree (hitdate_id), tablespace "support_idx" Tablespace: "support" esave_dw=# alter table uniq_hits alter sourceid type int; ERROR: integer out of range Sourceid should not be more than 5 digits long. I'm able to perform this query on Oracle and would like something similar on postgres 8.4: delete from uniq_hits where sourceid in (select sourceid from uniq_hits where length(sourceid) > 5); I haven't had much luck with the length or char_length functions on postgres. Thanks. Tony -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql