Re: Accommodating alternative column values

[Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:

> What I've tried:
> bustrac=# alter table people alter column email set data type varchar(64) [];
> ERROR:  column "email" cannot be cast automatically to type character 
> varying[]
> HINT:  You might need to specify "USING email::character varying(64)[]".

What I forgot to mention is that the current datatype is varchar(64) and I
want to make it an array.

Rich