On Thursday 24 December 2009 3:47:23 pm Andrus wrote: > Scott, > > >You can use the regex I posted to get rid of the data easily, then go > >back to the substr one for a check constraint after that. > > regex is non-standard. > How to implement this in standard SQL ? > > Andrus. Why should it matter? The initial data clean up is a one time event. Once the fields are cleaned up the check constraint will keep them that way. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general