Re: Combining output of several fields in SQL query

create table tableA(
s_l_p_p_v_i text not null,
field1 text not null,
field2 text not null,
primary key(field1,field2));

s_l_p_p_v_i field1 field1
abc         2      1
xyz         2      4
klm         2      3




--- Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com> wrote:

> On 9/12/06, Allan Kamau <kamauallan@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > This is a plain simple sql question appologies for
> > posting it here.
> >
> > Am looking for a way of combining values from
> several
> > fields(and introducting value separators).
> >
> > select field2+"_"+field1 from tableA;
> >
> > I've tried
> > select field2||'_'||field1 from tableA;
> > I get "1" as the result(which is not what I want).
>
>
>
> What does tableA look like (DDL and the data)?
>
>
==================================================================
>    Aaron Bono
>    Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
>    http://www.aranya.com
>    http://codeelixir.com
>
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>


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