Okay, that's what I was afraid of. Thanks. Ian
On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 10:06:19 AM UTC-4, Richard wrote: > > You can't just change the field type, you have to create another column of > string type then insert your data from a select of the other column into it > then delete the old useless column... You need to transform the integer > into text at the insert step... > > Richard > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Ian W. Scott <scot...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I'm using Postgresql and I need to migrate the data type of a field from >> "integer" to "string". Will it work to just change the field type in the >> model table definition? What will happen to the existing "integer" data? >> Any problems foreseen? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ian >> >> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
