Changing boolean to a smallint

On 2010-11-04 15:41, Christine Penner wrote:

I have a table column I want to change from a boolean to a smallint.
changing false to 0 and true to 1. How do I do that?

Christine Penner
Ingenious Software
250-352-9495
chris@fp2.ca

ALTER TABLE ALTER col_name TYPE SMALLINT
USING CASE WHEN col_name THEN 1 ELSE 0 END;

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Oops; see correction below:

On 2010-11-04 16:41, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote:

On 2010-11-04 15:41, Christine Penner wrote:

I have a table column I want to change from a boolean to a smallint.
changing false to 0 and true to 1. How do I do that?

Christine Penner
Ingenious Software
250-352-9495
chris@fp2.ca

ALTER TABLE table_name ALTER col_name TYPE SMALLINT
USING CASE WHEN col_name THEN 1 ELSE 0 END;

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