thanks igor, the combination of regexp_replace and string_agg works great for
me.
the query runs a lot faster than my previous solution and is way easier to
grasp.
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> Von: Igor Romanchenko
> Betreff: Aw: [SQL] replace text occurrences loaded from table
>
> -Original Message-
> From: pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-
> ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of jan zimmek
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:45 AM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: [SQL] replace text occurrences loaded from table
>
> hello,
>
> i am actually
hello,
i am actually trying to replace all occurences in a text column with some
value, but the occurrences to replace are defined in a table. this is a
simplified version of my schema:
create temporary table tmp_vars as select var from
(values('ABC'),('XYZ'),('VAR123')) entries (var);
create