On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 01:27:09PM -0700, Zuoxin.Wang@kp.org wrote:
>
> test=# select first_name, last_name, used, birthday from patient;
> first_name | last_name | used | birthday
> ------------+-----------+------+------------
> | 1960-02-01DI | N
> | 1960-02-01DI | N
> (2 rows)
I'd guess that the "used" columns contain carriage returns. What
do you see if you run the following query?
SELECT replace(used, '\r', '\\r'), length(used) FROM patient;
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Michael Fuhr
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