From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Subject: Re: replace " with nothing
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:53:42 -0400
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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...

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/functions-string.html>
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/functions-string.html#FUNCTIONS-STRING-OTHER>

replace(string text, from text, to text)

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Lew
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