On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Andy Colson wrote:
Trim it up: andy=# select '['|| rtrim(trim(trailing E'\n' from a)) || ']' from junk;
Andy, Scrolling through the table with rows ordered by date and chemical I find no duplicates ... so far. However, what I do find is that the above did not work: GW-22 | 1998-12-16 | Zinc | 0.01 GW-22 | 1998-12-16 | pH | 7.83 GW-22 +| 1999-03-09 | Alkalinity, Bicarbonate | 97 | | | GW-22 +| 1999-03-09 | Alkalinity, Total | 80 | | | GW-22 +| 1999-03-09 | Aluminum | 0.01 | | | GW-22 +| 1999-03-09 | Antimony | As my previous message noted, selecting rows with two spaces before the newline returned 0 rows. I'll continue looking for duplicates, but I suspect there are none. I just need to get rid of the newlines, drop all rows for site_id from the chemistry table, then insert the cleaned rows from the junk table. Regards, Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general