[sql] How to alter a column's data type in a PostgreSQL table?

If data already exists in the column you should do:

ALTER TABLE tbl_name ALTER COLUMN col_name TYPE integer USING col_name::integer;

As pointed out by @nobu and @jonathan-porter in comments to @derek-kromm's answer.

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