Re: [GENERAL] select from pipe-delimited field

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.
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