Timo Roessner wrote:
and if i try something like:
alter table fragment alter column x type numeric(15,2)
i get an syntax error, so this seems to be no feature in 7.4.1 (didnt
find anything like that in the docs too....)
what can i do to solve this? there must be some way in postgresql 7.4.1,
if there is no way to do that, i have to
build up the whole database from scratch........there must be a way to
convert float to numeric values in 7.4.1 ,
but i dont have a single clue...
There isn't a way to directly convert the type of a column in 7.4.x but
you can duplicate the effect.
BEGIN;
ALTER TABLE fragment RENAME COLUMN x TO old_x;
ALTER TABLE fragment ADD COLUMN x numeric(10,2);
UPDATE fragment SET x = old_x;
ALTER TABLE fragment DROP COLUMN old_x;
COMMIT;
Make sure you check any functions/application code that might be
expecting floating-point rather than numeric before you do this.
Oh, and upgrade from 7.4.1 to 7.4.7 as soon as possible.
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