Re: Identifying Reason for Column Name Returned by SELECT

I suspect you have a multi-line entry and the '+' is just indicating
that the field continues.

Try ...where site_id ~ 'GW-22'... (this may take a while if the table is
very large).

Cheers,
Steve

On 09/14/2011 09:35 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I run this SELECT statement on a table:
>
> select distinct(site_id) from chemistry order by site_id;
>
> and in the returned set I see:
>
> GW-21
> GW-22
> GW-22 +
>
> GW-24
>
> I want to find that row returning 'GW-22 +' because I believe it
> should be 'GW-23'. However, my attempts to retrieve that row keep
> failing.
> I've tried these statements:
>
> select count(*) from chemistry where site_id = 'GW-22 +';
> count -------
> 0
> (1 row)
>
> yet,
>
> select count(*) from chemistry where site_id = 'GW-22';
> count -------
> 803
> (1 row)
>
> Looking for the blank row also fails when I try to specify site_id
> as is
> null, = ' ', or =''.
>
> Please point me to the proper way of finding this rogue row so I can
> correct the value in the site_id column.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>