Re: Merging two columns into one

Thus spake Gary MacMinn
> I have two columns in a table (areacode and phone number) that I'd like to merge into one (phone number) containing both sets of info. Could anyone suggest a simple way of achieving this?

Oliver showed you how to merge these together with the SQL concatenate
operator but there is another possibility. PostgreSQL could use a
phone number type. I have been meaning to write a user defined type
for some time but never seem to get around to it. Maybe you could
give this a shot. The examples in contrib should get you started.
Once finished you can make the phone # one column and split out parts
with various functions. Don't forget to have a place for country code
and extension.

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