> iow, i want to limit the the newly converted varchar > revision to 2 characters, but can't due to the grayed > out boxes in pgadmin3. I saw this example at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-altertable.html ALTER TABLE distributors ADD CONSTRAINT zipchk CHECK (char_length(zipcode) = 5); This should do what you want. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.