If you want character translation like the tr command under unix, 
use TRANSLATE.




Andy Morrow wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> im trying to execute an update command on a postgresql DB table using
> pgAdmin II
> 
> im using the following statement
> 
> UPDATE commandlist SET command = REPLACE (command,'A','B')
> 
> commandlist is the table name
> command is the column
> and i want to change the value A to B
> 
> but it's giving me the following error message
> 
> an error has occured in pgAdmin II:frmSQLInput.cmdExecute_Click:
> 
> Number: -2147467259
> Description: Error while executing the query;
> ERROR: Function'replace(varchar, unknown, unknown)' does not exist
> Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument types
> You may need to add explicit typecasts
> 
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