Postgres Alter Column Integer to Boolean

Question

I've a field that is INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 and I need to change that to bool.

This is what I am using:

ALTER TABLE mytabe 
ALTER mycolumn TYPE bool 
USING 
    CASE 
        WHEN 0 THEN FALSE 
        ELSE TRUE 
    END;

But I am getting:

ERROR:  argument of CASE/WHEN must be type boolean, not type integer

********** Error **********

ERROR: argument of CASE/WHEN must be type boolean, not type integer
SQL state: 42804

Any idea?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this:

ALTER TABLE mytabe ALTER COLUMN mycolumn DROP DEFAULT;
ALTER TABLE mytabe ALTER mycolumn TYPE bool USING CASE WHEN mycolumn=0 THEN FALSE ELSE TRUE END;
ALTER TABLE mytabe ALTER COLUMN mycolumn SET DEFAULT FALSE;

You need to remove the constraint first (as its not a boolean), and secondly your CASE statement was syntactically wrong.