On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 06:09, Prabu Subroto wrote:
> Dear Scott...
>
> My God.... so I can not use "alter table" to define a
> column with int data type?
Not define, REdefine. Right now, the version going into beta will let
you redefine columns from one type to another. Til then, you have to
make a new column, and move your data into it.:
alter table test add column newid;
update test set newid=cast (id as int4);
Then the rest of what I posted.