On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:13:40PM +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote: > please tell me is there any operator available which enables me to do the following: > > field contains <some value> > > eg field contains "abc" should return true, similary for def or tez See "Pattern Matching" in the "Functions and Operators" chapter of the documentation. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-matching.html You mentioned that your data contains backslashes. Backslashes have special meaning to the string parser and in search patterns, so if you need to match a literal backslash then you might need to write more backslashes than you'd expect. If you're using 8.0 or later then dollar quotes can make writing patterns easier because they don't treat backslashes as special. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-DOLLAR-QUOTING -- Michael Fuhr
