Re: Accommodating alternative column values

From: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Accommodating alternative column values
Date: 2024-07-03 13:58:31
Message-ID: 74f52ac6-61cb-f995-34e5-16271b5c6832@appl-ecosys.com
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, Christophe Pettus wrote:

> To be clear, I wasn't suggesting stuffing them all into a text column with
> a delimiter, but storing them in a text *array* field, each email address
> one component of the array.

Christophe,

I'm not using the proper syntax and the postgres alter table doc has no
example in the alter column choices.

What I've tried:
bustrac=# alter table people alter column email set data type varchar(64) [];
ERROR: column "email" cannot be cast automatically to type character varying[]
HINT: You might need to specify "USING email::character varying(64)[]".

How do I incorporate the "USING email::..." string?

TIA,

Rich

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