Re: Help : Removal of leading spaces in all the columns of a table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rob Sargent
Subject Re: Help : Removal of leading spaces in all the columns of a table
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In response to Re: Help : Removal of leading spaces in all the columns of a table  (Susan Hurst <susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com>)
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On Feb 12, 2020, at 7:09 AM, Susan Hurst <susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com> wrote:



I once wrote a trigger function to do just what you asked, however, it was a huge drain on performance so I didn't use it for long, so I dropped the trigger.  Hopefully, someone has a more practical approach.  I would be interested in this also.

Sue

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susan E Hurst Principal Consultant Brookhurst Data LLC Email: susan.hurst@brookhurstdata.com Mobile: 314-486-3261

On 2020-02-12 06:42, srikkanth wrote:

Hi Team,

 

How can i write the syntax to remove the leading spaces on a table for all the columns.

 

Also, want to know how to do the all words of all the columns in capital along with removing of leading\excessive\trailing spaces at a time.

Can you please help me out, let me know in case of any


For larger production tables I would stream the converted data through COPY into a new table of identical shape, build indeces then rename both and truncate/drop old table. 

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