Re: Change size of a field

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, ROUWEZ Stephane wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to change the size of a field ?
> Actually, I have a field called 'nom' in varchar(50) and I want this field
> in varchar(80).
> I can't do it with PgAdmin. Is it normal ?

Pretty normal!
just
1) % pg_dump -t <tablename> <dbname> > <tablename>-DUMP.sql
2) % psql
# drop sequence <tablename>_id_seq;
3) vi <tablename>-DUMP.sql
change your varchar(50) to varchar(80)
4) psql
#\i <tablename>-DUMP.sql

There you go

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