am 13.04.2006, um 12:47:38 +0000 mailte pgdb folgendes: > > <HTML><DIV class=bgcolor STYLE="background-color: ;"><DIV> > <DIV> > <DIV> > <DIV>Hi,</DIV> > <DIV> </DIV> > <DIV>like to know how, if possible, for patterns > as attribute in a table to be used in a regex search with a > fixed string. The query should therefore return the rows that > have matching patterns with the single text.</DIV> It's hard to read such text, please use plain ASCII insteed HTML. Perhaps you are looking for something like this: test=# select * from search; text ---------------- this is a test (1 row) test=# select * from pattern; text --------- ^this.* ^foo (2 rows) test=# select pattern.text, search.text from pattern, search where search.text ~ pattern.text; text | text ---------+---------------- ^this.* | this is a test (1 row) HTH, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer (Kontakt: siehe Header) Heynitz: 035242/47215, D1: 0160/7141639 GnuPG-ID 0x3FFF606C http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net === Schollglas Unternehmensgruppe ===