From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Randy D. McCracken <rdm@srs.fs.usda.gov>
Cc: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Cc: Rajesh Kumar Mallah. <mallah@trade-india.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Search and Replace
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:38:54 -0600
Message-ID: <20030110003854.GA22030@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301091911270.6431-100000@www.srs.fs.fed.us>
References: <20030109230322.GC30740@wallace.ece.rice.edu>
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0301091911270.6431-100000@www.srs.fs.fed.us>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 19:15:51 -0500,
"Randy D. McCracken" <rdm@srs.fs.usda.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi Rajesh,
>
> I don't know why but the example you gave me did not work. Here is what
> happened when I tried:
>
> ==========
>
> pubs_test=# UPDATE publications SET url = replace( 'www.srs.fs.fed.us' ,
> 'www.srs.fs.usda.gov' , url ) WHERE url ilike '%www.srs.fs.fed.us%';
>
> ERROR: Function 'replace(unknown, unknown, text)' does not exist
> Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument types
> You may need to add explicit typecasts
The arguments to replace were in the wrong order.
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