| From: | hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> |
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| To: | Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Some frustrations with admin tasks on PGSQL database |
| Date: | 2007-08-17 14:24:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20070817142439.GA10104@depesz.com |
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:22:55PM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> Wow, smartest advice of the day! Yes, a lot of our data in that column
> has dots and numbers (800,000 compared to 6 million), so I wanted to
> get only to the stuff that was pure alphabets, but just didn't think
> of how.
what i really meant was: check how many record will actually be modified
- i.e. contain upper-case letters.
the fact that some records contain only dots and digits is nice, but i
suspect that you also have a lot of record with only lower-case letters
in the field. or am i wrong?
depesz
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