On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:44:09PM -0500, san man wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to do a SELECT operation with a WHERE condition. However, the > column with which I am trying to do the comparison has several values which > are pipe-delimited. I want to return a match(true) if the WHERE condition > matches any of the bar-delimited values. You'll want to normalize this table into two or more tables, at some point. > For example, SELECT id WHERE synonyms = 'word'; > > Here synonyms is a pipe-delimited field and I want to match "word" with any > of the values of the synonyms fields. Try the LIKE function. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-LIKE Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
