Re: [GENERAL] What would be a good way to append some text to the end of a text field?

Thanks Ross,

Sorry I didn't come with an example but I meant something like:


test=> create table test_text (word_id int, words text);
CREATE
test=> insert into test_text values (1, 'some text');
INSERT 684150 1
test=> UPDATE test_text SET words = words + 'some more text' WHERE word_id = 1;

Resulting in:
test=> SELECT * FROM test_text;
word_id|words
-------+---------------
      1|some text some more text


Hope this explains my question.

Thanks.


"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 02:45:04PM +0100, Wim Aarts wrote:
> >
> > Now I use php3 to read the text from the database then I append some
> > text to it and finaly I do an update on the text field.
> > Is it possible to use an SQL statement to do this directly in the
> > database?
> >
>
> Like this?
>
> test=> create table test_text (word_id int, words text);
> CREATE
> test=> insert into test_text values (1, 'some text');
> INSERT 684150 1
> test=> insert into test_text values (2, 'some other text');
> INSERT 684151 1
> test=> select * from test_text;
> word_id|words
> -------+---------------
>       1|some text
>       2|some other text
> (2 rows)
>
> test=> update test_text set words = textcat(words,', and text added later') where word_id=1;
> UPDATE 1
> test=> select * from test_text;word_id|words
> -------+-------------------------------
>       2|some other text
>       1|some text, and text added later
> (2 rows)
>
> test=>
>
> Ross
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> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
> Computer and Information Technology Institute
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