I have a table in PG, Pulled from SQL Server using Perl DBI (w/o using chopblanks) and have ended up with a column where the "space" is being interpreted as a value. eg: "ABC " when it should be "ABC" this is being defined as varchar(4) I've already pull the relevent columns with create foo as select unique_id, rtrim(number) from org_column I've tried to do the update using update org_column set number = foo.number where foo.unique_id = org_column=unique_id. The update is taking a few hours and still hasn't ended. I've killed it already and rolled back the changes. what's the easiest way to update these fields? Thanks.. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
