Re: Selecting empty columns

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Selecting empty columns
Date: 2000-11-28 16:05:45
Message-ID: 20001128100545.B14303@rice.edu
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:39:50PM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
> How can I retrieve empty columns from a table?
> The affected column is int4, some row do have values, others are empty -
> how can those empty ones be retrieved and updated to 0

UPDATE foo_table SET bar_column = 0 WHERE bar_column IS NULL;

Ross
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