Am Dienstag, den 01.11.2005, 16:03 -0700 schrieb Nels Lindquist: > Hi there. > > Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm relatively new to PostgreSQL. > > I'm trying to copy information from one column, modify it and place > it in another column. Is there some shortcut way to do this with an > UPDATE statement? Yes, this is simply UPDATE. UPDATE sometable SET somecolumn=somefunction(someothercolumn); ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly