Re: Data conversion in query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: Data conversion in query
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Msg-id m3ptocy469.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com
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In response to Data conversion in query  (Tad Marko <tad@tadland.net>)
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Tad Marko <tad@tadland.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having a small difficulty that I am hopeful there is a simple solution
> for. Basically, I am doing a join on a column that is numeric in one
> database but a string in the other. Something like:
>
> ...WHERE a.numeric_zipcode=b.string_zipcode::integer...
>
> The problem is that occasionally the string zip field has some
> non-numeric characters. Unfortunatley, I cannot control the sanity of the
> string zip field. The question is if there is any way that in the same
> query I can filter out the rows that have non-number characters in the zip
> field?

You should be able to use regular expressions for this.

-Doug

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