Re: Appended '+' in Column Value - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Appended '+' in Column Value
Date
Msg-id 20140822215433.GE2902@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Appended '+' in Column Value  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:46:46PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   One column in a table has values for the attribute 'stream'. Some queries
> return some rows where a stream name (only identified one so far) has an
> appended '+'. I cannot update the table to remove that appended character,
> and I've not seen this before.
>
>   Example:
>
>    2220 | STV     | 2012-07-12 | Nematoda |             |              |
>          |          | Omnivore      |    50 |          | StarvationCrk+| Owyhee
>         |         |            |          |             |              |
>          |          |               |       |          |               |
>    2701 | STV-10  | 2013-07-10 | Nematoda |             |              |
>          |          | Omnivore      |    36 |          | StarvationCrk | Owyhee
>
>   I'd appreciate learning where that '+' originates

It's probably an indication of a wrapped column value inside
the display column bounded by |'s.

Try fiddling with \x and \pset.

Karsten
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