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Asked: June 14, 20262026-06-14T15:00:17+00:00 2026-06-14T15:00:17+00:00

I want to drop 200 columns in my table in PostgreSQL. I tried: ALTER

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I want to drop 200 columns in my table in PostgreSQL. I tried:

ALTER TABLE my_table
DROP COLUMN col1, col2

But I get an error like this:

ERROR: syntax error at or near “col2”

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    2026-06-14T15:00:20+00:00Added an answer on June 14, 2026 at 3:00 pm

    As per the docs, you can do this:

    ALTER TABLE table DROP COLUMN col1, DROP COLUMN col2;
    

    (You may need to wrap some of your column names in " quotes if they happen to be keywords.)

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