LKBEN11212: How to change and increase the size of a type in postgesql
Symptom
You need to increase the size of a type in postgres sql
Cause
The column might be to small to store your varchar data
Solution
You can do this with the alter table command. Here an example:
alter table clients alter column server type character varying(255);
The general command is:
alter table TABLENAME alter column COLUMNNAME type character varying(255);
This can be used to change your varchar from a smaller to a bigger size.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.