From: Tony Capobianco <tcapobianco@prospectiv.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: replace " with nothing
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:51:05 -0400
Message-ID: <1305147065.1954.5.camel@tony1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305145780.1954.4.camel@tony1.localdomain>
References: <1305145780.1954.4.camel@tony1.localdomain>
Ok, I think I found it:
select translate(firstname,'"','') from members;
gives me what I want.
Thanks.
On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 16:29 -0400, Tony Capobianco wrote:
> We are converting from Oracle to Postgres. An Oracle script contains
> this line:
>
> select replace(firstname,'"'), memberid, emailaddress from members;
>
> in an effort to replace the " with nothing. How can I achieve the same
> result with Postgres?
>
> Here's the Postgres error I get:
>
> select replace(firstname,'"'), memberid, emailaddress from members;
> ERROR: function replace(character varying, unknown) does not exist
> LINE 1: select replace(firstname,'"'), memberid, emailaddress from m...
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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