From: | "Nels Lindquist" <Nels(at)maei(dot)ca> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Copying data from one column to another |
Date: | 2005-11-02 00:18:33 |
Message-ID: | 4367A365.19577.6EFFD61@Nels.maesrv.maei.ca |
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On 2 Nov 2005 at 0:34, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 01.11.2005, 16:03 -0700 schrieb Nels Lindquist:
> > Hi there.
> >
> > Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm relatively new to PostgreSQL.
> >
> > I'm trying to copy information from one column, modify it and place
> > it in another column. Is there some shortcut way to do this with an
> > UPDATE statement?
>
> Yes, this is simply UPDATE.
>
> UPDATE sometable SET somecolumn=somefunction(someothercolumn);
Thanks! Knowing that it *should* work, I was able to figure out what
I was doing wrong (casting to a data type which didn't match the
array type I'd accidentally selected when creating the column with
pgAdmin III).
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Nels Lindquist <*>
Information Systems Manager
Morningstar Air Express Inc.
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