Re: [SQLObject] Altering a (populated) database column

2017-10-24 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 09:16:57PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: >Hi, Oleg, >Thanks for the prompt reply. Welcome! > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 09:37:57PM +0200, Oleg Broytman wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:00:13PM +0100, Hugo Mills > > wrote: > > >Is there any way that I can mo

Re: [SQLObject] Altering a (populated) database column

2017-10-24 Thread Hugo Mills
Hi, Oleg, Thanks for the prompt reply. On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 09:37:57PM +0200, Oleg Broytman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:00:13PM +0100, Hugo Mills > wrote: > >Is there any way that I can modify an existing database column, > > with data in it, without losing the data in it?

Re: [SQLObject] Altering a (populated) database column

2017-10-24 Thread Oleg Broytman
Hi! On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:00:13PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: >Is there any way that I can modify an existing database column, > with data in it, without losing the data in it? All I need to be able > to do is increase the size of a StringCol. > >I can see addColumn and delColumn meth

[SQLObject] Altering a (populated) database column

2017-10-24 Thread Hugo Mills
Is there any way that I can modify an existing database column, with data in it, without losing the data in it? All I need to be able to do is increase the size of a StringCol. I can see addColumn and delColumn methods of the sqlmeta object, but not an alterColumn or anything similar. Th