I am using Perl DBI to do this conversion, so this is somewhat
related to DBI.
I need to convert a column in a Postgres table from VARCHAR to
INTEGER - I don't know of an easy way to do that, so I'm assuming
I need to do something drastic like this in my conversion script:
* create a new
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 11:30 AM, Hardy Merrill wrote:
Is there an easier way? What am I missing?
Yes, there is: PostgreSQL 7.3. It's still in beta, but should be in
final release soon. It finally adds good ALTER COLUMN support.
HTH,
David
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David Wheeler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 11:30 AM, Hardy Merrill wrote:
Is there an easier way? What am I missing?
Yes, there is: PostgreSQL 7.3. It's still in beta, but should be in
final release soon. It finally adds good ALTER COLUMN support.
Are you
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 11:50 AM, Hardy Merrill wrote:
Are you sure - I just checked the Postgres 7.3b2 docs at
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-commands.html
and there is no mention of an ALTER COLUMN command.
Sorry, bad memory. It's DROP COLUMN that's been
David Wheeler wrote:
Sorry, bad memory. It's DROP COLUMN that's been added. This is from the
HISTORY file:
PostgreSQL now supports ALTER TABLE ... DROP COLUMN
functionality.
But what that means is that you can rename your old column, add a new
column with the new data type,
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 11:57 AM, Christopher G Tantalo wrote:
not to be a smart ass(gonna be one anyways), but after all that work,
wouldnt
you want to keep your new column? :)
D'oh!
I mean drop the old column.
David
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