Thanks depesz, It was really helpful Dimitris. -----Original Message----- From: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:depesz@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:18 PM To: dimitris.sakellarios@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Question about pattern matching On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:05:08PM +0200, dimitris.sakellarios@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > QUESTION > -------- > Pls let me know which is the best way to match the > following pattern against this table and Receive id = 8 > that is the longest matching pattern from left to right. check this: http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2008/03/04/searching-for-longest-prefix/ read also the comments additionally, check this url: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/prefix Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007 __________ NOD32 3693 (20081215) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general