From: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] yet another simple SQL question
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:07:17 +0200
Message-ID: <20070625180717.GA19814@a-kretschmer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467FFEF9.5050603@joshuaneil.com>
References: <467FFEF9.5050603@joshuaneil.com>
am Mon, dem 25.06.2007, um 12:44:25 -0500 mailte Joshua folgendes:
> Ok,
>
> You guys must be getting sick of these newbie questions, but I can't
> resist since I am learning a lot from these email lists and getting
> results quick! Thanks to everyone for their contributions.
>
> Here is my questions....
>
> I have a column that looks like this
>
> firstname
> -----------------
> John B
> Mark A
> Jennifer D
>
> Basically I have the first name followed by a middle initial. Is there a
> quick command I can run to strip the middle initial? Basically, I just
> need to delete the middle initial so the column would then look like the
> following:
>
> firstname
> ---------------
> John
> Mark
> Jennifer
Yes, of course:
test=# select split_part('My Name', ' ', 1);
split_part
------------
My
(1 row)
And now, i think, you should read our fine manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/
Andreas
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