RE: delete one column in table

2002-01-05 Thread McCollum, Frank
from tempTable This builds back your original Table. -Original Message- From: Dave K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: delete one column in table For most rdbms you would use ALTER TABLE, for postgresql you can't

Re: delete one column in table

2002-01-05 Thread Dave K
For most rdbms you would use ALTER TABLE, for postgresql you can't. Lets say you originally created CREATE TABLE example ( col1 varchar, col2 varchar, colthree numeric); then realized colthree was in the wrong table. you can: CREATE TABLE temp AS SELECT col1,col2 FROM example; DROP TABLE EXAMPLE;