From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>
To: Andy Morrow <andy.morrow@jinny.ie>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: function replace doesnt exist
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:48:16 -0500
Message-ID: <3DF8BDD0.3791CCC5@nsd.ca> (raw)
References: <CPEDJLGAFMLAIAPMHNBMGEBECJAA.andy.morrow@jinny.ie>
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Andy Morrow wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> im trying to execute an update command on a postgresql DB table using
> pgAdmin II
>
> im using the following statement
>
> UPDATE commandlist SET command = REPLACE (command,'A','B')
>
> commandlist is the table name
> command is the column
> and i want to change the value A to B
>
> but it's giving me the following error message
>
> an error has occured in pgAdmin II:frmSQLInput.cmdExecute_Click:
>
> Number: -2147467259
> Description: Error while executing the query;
> ERROR: Function'replace(varchar, unknown, unknown)' does not exist
> Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument types
> You may need to add explicit typecasts
>
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