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femalepressure



Joined: 14/10/2022 20:38:27
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3 Switzerland entries have a trailing comma in their alternate country code (CH,):
2661349 Buchs
7285374 Buchs (SG)
7303718 Guscha

Can the comma be eliminated? Ignoring it makes the import to postgres as array (embed in {}) a little complicated.

Dealing with the alternate country codes I was wondering why about 200 thousand entries exist with their alternate country code being exactly their normal country code, while all other entries (except those with a different or with multiple alternate codes) just have a null value? Just in case there is a special reason for that I would like to know!

All the best
Andreas

Have fun
Cheers Andreas
marc



Joined: 08/12/2005 07:39:47
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I have removed the commas, set the equal countrycodes to null and added a processing step in the modify function to do this for updates.

Best Regards

Marc

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femalepressure



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Thank you very much Marc!

Have fun
Cheers Andreas
 
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