Re: Removing terminal period from varchar string in table column

Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>

From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-07-15T18:02:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Jeff Ross wrote:

> How about
>
> test:
>     select company_name, replace(company_name,'.','') from companies;
>
> update:
>     update companies set company_name = replace(company_name,'.','') where 
> company_name like '%.';

Jeff,

These contain the table and column names I didn't see in web page examples.
Using update looks better to me.

Many thanks,

Rich