Re: display query results

From: PJ <af(dot)gourmet(at)videotron(dot)ca>
To: Andy Shellam <andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: display query results
Date: 2008-08-01 15:31:58
Message-ID: 48932C6E.9030309@videotron.ca
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You were quite right, the problem was a line feed after the word "Alcohol"
Now it works fine.
Thanks, I learned a lot .... :)

Andy Shellam wrote:
>> Haha, no worries, I've had the same issue before.
>> It's almost certain that the text in your column does not exactly
>> match "Alcohol" for one of a few reasons, e.g.
>>
>> "Alcohol " (right-padding)
>> " Alcohol" (left-padding)
>> " Alcohol " (padded both sides)
>>
>> will not match = 'Alcohol' in the query.
>> Try trimming the data in that field - from PgAdmin or some other
>> query tool, run something like:
>>
>> |UPDATE glossary_item SET "name" = |trim(both ' ' from "name")

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