Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a situation where a varchar column was limited to a too small
> maximum length in the design phase... shit happens, we will fix our db
> schema in our next database downtime or software version deployment,
> whichever comes first (we are using 7.4 and on the fly column type
> change is only from 8.0 on I guess).
You can do surgery on the system catalogs in 7.4 if you need to change
the length of a varchar. 8.0 just put a nice ALTER TABLE interface on
top of it. Read the system catalog docs and definitely try it on a
test database first. :)
-Doug