From: Glenn Davy <glenn@tangelosoftware.net>
Organization: Tangelo Software
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: another simple SQL question
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:02:46 +1000
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:28:40 am Joshua wrote:
> Ok here is another simple question from a novice....
>
> Here is what my table looks like
>
> firstname         lastname         fullname
> ----------       ----------       -----------
>                                               smith, john
>                                               green, susan
>                                               white, jeff
>
>
> How can I break the fullname field into firstname lastname fields so it
> looks like the following:
>
> firstname      lastname      fullname
> ---------     ---------       ---------
> john             smith             smith, john
> susan           green             green, susan
> jeff               white             white, jeff
>
> Please let me know. Sorry for such simple novice questions, I appreciate
> your support.
>

update yourtable set firstname= substring(fullname,1,position(',' in 
fullname)-1) ,lastname= substring(fullname, position(', ' in fullname)+2, 
char_length(fullname));

glenn

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