[DERBY-3938] Document that you can change the length of varbinary as well as varchar columns

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 10.5.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 10.5.1.1
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Camilla Haase
• Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas
• Created: 05/Nov/08 17:20
• Updated: 04/May/09 18:22
• Resolved: 07/Jan/09 15:57

Description

The Reference Manual section on ALTER TABLE states that you can lengthen a VARCHAR column. You can also lengthen a VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA column--but we don't say so.