title: Increasing the size of character varying type in postgres without data loss
body: <p>I need to increase the size of a character varying(60) field in a postgres database table without data loss. </p>
  
  <p>I have this command</p>
  
  <pre><code>alter table client_details alter column name set character varying(200);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>will this command increase the the field size from 60 to 200 without data loss?</p>