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@postgresql.org
Date: 2025-07-15T20:15:11Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Thom Brown wrote:

> UPDATE companies
> SET company_name = rtrim(company_name, '.')
> WHERE company_name != rtrim(company_name, '.');

Thom,

That makes sense. The web pages I read assumed I knew to use the UPDATE
command. As this was the first time I needed to clean column content I
didn't assume that update was the appropriate mechanism. Now I do.

Thanks,

Rich