Re: Change of data type

On pg8, to change tab.col to type t:

alter table tab alter column col type t

so:
alter table tab alter column material type text

-j

Judith wrote:

> Hello everybody, excuse me how can I change de data type of a
> field, I currently have:
> material character(30)
> but I now want the field in text type like this:
>
> material text
>
> somebody knows if ALTER TABLE has some option to do this?, or How
> can I do that?
>
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