Postgres: Reduce varchar size and truncate

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Published on 2010-03-17T22:28:15Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 22:31 UTC
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I currently have a Postgres 8.4 database that contains a varchar(10000) column. I'd like to change this into a varchar(255) and truncate any data that happens to be too long. How can I do this?

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