Is it possible to alter field type (from varchar to text) without making
a new table?
Regards,
BTJ
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Am Do, den 26.08.2004 schrieb Bjørn T Johansen um 9:48: Is it possible to alter field type (from varchar to text) without making
a new table?
In 8.0 I think.
Common practice in 7.4.x is:
BEGIN work;
ALTER TABLE yourtable ADD COLUMN tempcolumn text;
UPDATE yourtable SET tempcolumn = origcolumn;
ALTER TABLE yourtable DROP COLUMN origcolumn;
ALTER TABLE yourtable RENAME tempcolumn TO origcolumn;
COMMIT work;
Since text and (unlimited) varchar are quite the same,
you could get away with modifying the system tables.
But I would not recomment to do so.
Regards
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Bjørn T Johansen <bt*@havleik.no > writes: Is it possible to alter field type (from varchar to text) without making a new
table?
You can add a new column, update the table to set the new column to the old
value. then drop the old column. Then you might want to vacuum full the table.
In 8.0 there will be a command to do what you want, but it will still have to
do all the same work as I described above.
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That looks like a recipe, thx... :)
BTJ
Tino Wildenhain wrote: Hi,
Am Do, den 26.08.2004 schrieb Bjørn T Johansen um 9:48:
Is it possible to alter field type (from varchar to text) without making
a new table?
In 8.0 I think.
Common practice in 7.4.x is:
BEGIN work;
ALTER TABLE yourtable ADD COLUMN tempcolumn text;
UPDATE yourtable SET tempcolumn = origcolumn;
ALTER TABLE yourtable DROP COLUMN origcolumn;
ALTER TABLE yourtable RENAME tempcolumn TO origcolumn;
COMMIT work;
Since text and (unlimited) varchar are quite the same,
you could get away with modifying the system tables.
But I would not recomment to do so.
Regards
Tino Wildenhain
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On 26 Aug 2004 04:36:18 -0400, Greg Stark <gs*****@mit.ed u> wrote:
Bjørn T Johansen <bt*@havleik.no > writes:
Is it possible to alter field type (from varchar to text) without making a new
table?
You can add a new column, update the table to set the new column to the old
value. then drop the old column. Then you might want to vacuum full the table.
Does vacuum full completely remove the dropped column?
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This may sound like a silly question....
I am currently running 7.4.2.
I would like to upgrade to 7.4.5...
So I downloaded postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz
<ftp://ftp21.us.postgr esql.org/pub/postgresql/v7.4.5/postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz>
uncompressed...
configure...
make
make install
I run psql and it gives me the" Welcome to psql 7.4.5, the PostgreSQL
interactive terminal."
So far so good...it says 7.4.5.
but when I select version() from the database that I connected to with
psql, I still receive:
PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1, compiled by GCC cc (GCC)
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Is the database itself versioned?
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On 8/27/2004 12:21 PM, Jeff Amiel wrote: This may sound like a silly question....
I am currently running 7.4.2.
I would like to upgrade to 7.4.5...
So I downloaded postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz
<ftp://ftp21.us.postgr esql.org/pub/postgresql/v7.4.5/postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz>
uncompressed...
configure...
try
eval ./configure `/usr/bin/pg_config --configure`
Jan
make
make install
I run psql and it gives me the" Welcome to psql 7.4.5, the PostgreSQL
interactive terminal."
So far so good...it says 7.4.5.
but when I select version() from the database that I connected to with
psql, I still receive:
PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1, compiled by GCC cc (GCC)
3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
Is the database itself versioned?
Do I need to do a dump/restore?
Jeff
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Ok......still no dice.
still shows 7.4.2 when I select version()...
I must surely be doing something silly here...
Jan Wieck wrote: On 8/27/2004 12:21 PM, Jeff Amiel wrote:
This may sound like a silly question....
I am currently running 7.4.2.
I would like to upgrade to 7.4.5...
So I downloaded postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz
<ftp://ftp21.us.postgr esql.org/pub/postgresql/v7.4.5/postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz>
uncompressed...
configure...
try
eval ./configure `/usr/bin/pg_config --configure`
Jan
make
make install
I run psql and it gives me the" Welcome to psql 7.4.5, the PostgreSQL
interactive terminal."
So far so good...it says 7.4.5.
but when I select version() from the database that I connected to
with psql, I still receive:
PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1, compiled by GCC cc
(GCC) 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
Is the database itself versioned?
Do I need to do a dump/restore?
Jeff
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Jeff Amiel <ja****@istream imaging.com> writes: So I downloaded postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz
<ftp://ftp21.us.postgr esql.org/pub/postgresql/v7.4.5/postgresql-7.4.5.tar.gz>
uncompressed...
configure...
make
make install
I run psql and it gives me the" Welcome to psql 7.4.5, the PostgreSQL
interactive terminal."
So far so good...it says 7.4.5.
but when I select version() from the database that I connected to with
psql, I still receive:
PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1, compiled by GCC cc
(GCC) 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
Did you shut down and restart the server after the upgrade? Are you
sure the new binaries went where you think they did?
-Doug
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Duh. I never restarted the server.
sheesh.
thanks to all.
Jeff
Doug McNaught wrote: Did you shut down and restart the server after the upgrade? Are you
sure the new binaries went where you think they did?
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