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From: Thom Brown <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
Cc: PGSQL Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Removing terminal period from varchar string in table column
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:19:18 +0100
Message-ID: <CAA-aLv65ZezBo8AM29dPJK6-THmqMsfr2WdiETbwag29DmhQnQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, 18:59 Rich Shepard, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Thom Brown wrote:
>
> > There are various options, but perhaps just use rtrim.
> > rtrim(company_name, '.')
>
> Thom,
>
> I looked at rtrim() but didn't see where to specify the table name. Would
> it
> be `select * from table companies rtrim(company_name, '.')'?
>

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

Thom

>

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