On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:42 +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
ALTER COLUMN TYPE is intended for cases where actual transformation of
the data is involved. Obviously varchar(20) to varchar(35) doesn't
really require any per-row effort, but there's no operation in the
system that handles that
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Alban Hertroys
dal...@solfertje.student.utwente.nl wrote:
On Feb 3, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
.snip
regression=# update pg_attribute set atttypmod = 35+4 where attrelid =
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
.snip
regression=# update pg_attribute set atttypmod = 35+4 where attrelid =
't1'::regclass and attname = 'f1';
UPDATE 1
regression=# \d t1
Table public.t1
Column | Type | Modifiers
Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com writes:
Tom, this has worked, and a \d TABLENAME shows that the column is
varchar(35).
But I still have messages in my log saying:
ERROR: value too long for type character varying(20)
Cached plans maybe?
regards, tom lane
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com writes:
Tom, this has worked, and a \d TABLENAME shows that the column is
varchar(35).
But I still have messages in my log saying:
ERROR: value too long for type character varying(20)
On Feb 3, 2009, at 5:21 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
.snip
regression=# update pg_attribute set atttypmod = 35+4 where
attrelid = 't1'::regclass and attname = 'f1';
UPDATE 1
regression=# \d t1
Table
2009/1/12 Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com:
I am trying to resize a column on a large-ish database (with 5 million rows).
The column was 20 characters before, now I want to make it 35 characters.
Challenge is: this is the main indexed column in a busy database.
I tried looking at the
On Sunday 11 January 2009 5:07:31 pm Phoenix Kiula wrote:
I am trying to resize a column on a large-ish database (with 5 million
rows).
The column was 20 characters before, now I want to make it 35 characters.
Challenge is: this is the main indexed column in a busy database.
I tried
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ian Barwick barw...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/12 Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com:
I am trying to resize a column on a large-ish database (with 5 million rows).
ALTER TABLE users ALTER COLUMN name TYPE VARCHAR(35)
HTH
Thanks! I guess I was missing the
On Sunday 11 January 2009 5:21:46 pm Phoenix Kiula wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ian Barwick barw...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/12 Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com:
I am trying to resize a column on a large-ish database (with 5 million
rows).
ALTER TABLE users ALTER COLUMN
Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net writes:
On Sunday 11 January 2009 5:21:46 pm Phoenix Kiula wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ian Barwick barw...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/12 Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com:
I am trying to resize a column on a large-ish database (with 5 million
ALTER COLUMN TYPE is intended for cases where actual transformation of
the data is involved. Obviously varchar(20) to varchar(35) doesn't
really require any per-row effort, but there's no operation in the
system that handles that case. But if you're brave, you can do it
via manipulation of
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