Re: Removing terminal period from varchar string in table column

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, 18:30 Rich Shepard, <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> I want to remove the terminal period '.' from the varchar strings in the
> 'company_name' column in all rows with that period in the companies table.
>
> I've looked at trim(), translate(), "substr(company_name 1,
> length(compan_name) - 1)", and a couple of other functions and am unsure
> how
> best to do this without corrupting the database table.
>

There are various options, but perhaps just use rtrim.

rtrim(company_name, '.')

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-string.html

Thom