Csaba Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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