Hello I like to delete "k" from a string with the statement update stamm set code = replace (code, 'k' , '');
But the only way to get the canditates I want to update is the following statement. It seems that I can not update when I do a join. Is there a way around it? With google I found a hint that a subselect could help but there was no exsample ... And I did not found out how to do this. select a.code from stamm a where a.skart in ( (select skart from stamm where code like '%k%') ) and a.code not like '%V%'; I would be happy about a hint. Thanks a lot Michael ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org