Re: Search and Replace - Mailing list pgsql-sql

REPLACE is the right function for you avaliable as an addon.

install it in postgresql installation using the source at:
http://www.brasileiro.net:8080/postgres/cookbook/view-one-recipe.adp?recipe_id=23

if you face problem please lemme know

once this function is installed you could update like:

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UPDATE publications SET url =  replace( 'www.srs.fs.fed.us' , 'www.srs.fs.usda.gov' , url ) 
WHERE url  ilike '%www.srs.fs.fed.us%';
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regds
mallah.


On Wednesday 08 January 2003 07:32 pm, Randy D. McCracken wrote:
> I apologize for having to resort to sending what is most likely a simple
> tech support question regarding PostgreSQL to this list but I have not
> been able to find the answer in the documentation.
>
> I am responsible for managing a database containing over 6,000 records of
> US Forest Service Research publications
> (http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/search.jsp) and I need to do a simple
> search and replace in one of the columns.  In these records we have a
> field for URLs of the location the research publications and I need to
> change the base URL from www.srs.fs.fed.us to www.srs.fs.usda.gov.  It
> seems like this "search and replace" would be a simple thing to do with an
> UPDATE command but I am having great difficulty making this work.
>
> The table definition I am trying to update is: url.  At first I thought
> about using a simple UPDATE command like this:
>
> UPDATE publications SET url = 'www.srs.fs.usda.gov' WHERE url =
> 'www.srs.fs.fed.us';
>
> Of course that would work fine but "www.srs.fs.fed.us" is only part of a
> complete URL such as: http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/rp/rp_se263.pdf.  My
> problem (among other things!) is that I don't know how to pass along
> wildcards so that I do not change the other parts of the complete URL.  I
> have tried substituting "like" for "=" and trying to use the wildcard of
> "%" but to no avail.  I am really just guessing here.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Best,
>
> --rdm
>
>
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