You can't yet... at least not with an ALTER statement. The only way to currenty do this is by dumping the table (through pg_dump), altering the type of the field, and then re-ipmorting the table. Rumor has it that they are working on an ALTER statement to accomplish this for 7.3 or 7.4. -Dan Quoting ameen eetemadi <ameen78101@xxxxxxxxx>: > I want to change the type of a field in postgres . > How can I do it ?