Re: update questsion

From: ERIC Lawson - x52010 <eric(at)bioeng(dot)washington(dot)edu>
To: Donald Braman <donald(dot)braman(at)yale(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: update questsion
Date: 2001-02-28 19:22:19
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0102281121060.2842-100000@arwen.bioeng.washington.edu
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Seattle just shook hard.

Anyway, I think you want the text concatenation operator, ||

You might need to cast the data to text also.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Donald Braman wrote:

> I'm trying to update a column to it's orignal contents plus a space plus the
> contents of another column.
>
> UPDATE cases
> SET citation = citation + ' ' + text(year);
>
> (citation is text type and year is char type, hence the use of text()
> function)
> I get: Unable to identify an operator '+' for types 'text' and 'unknown'
> I can't find any documentation on how to this sort of thing, so any help is
> appreciated. -Don
>

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