> I made a  HUGE mistake, and used 'UK' as the abbreviation for the  
> united kingdom ( the ISO abbv is 'GB' )
> 
> I've got a database where 8 tables have an FKEY on a table  
> 'location_country' , using the text 'uk' as the value -- so i've got  
> 9 tables that I need to swap data out on
> 
> can anyone suggest a non-nightmarish way for me to do this ?

If your tables are setup to "ON UPDATE CASCASE" then you are fine.

Just updated the main table and PostgreSQL will take care of the rest.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-createtable.html

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.

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