Changing column types - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Lambert
Subject Changing column types
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Msg-id 46B657E3.6060204@autoledgers.com.au
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Owing to a problem with the way access and a couple of other programs
I've found handle text columns in PG as something they call 'memo', I
want to change all of the text columns in my database to varchar.
There's about 600 text columns all up, so I'm looking for a quick way of
  doing this.

Is there any way, using the system catalogues - pg_tables, pg_attributes
etc that I can automatically change all text type fields to varchar or
am I better of just recreating the schema?

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Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
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