Re:

Peter,
Select is the good way, but use LIKE or ~ instead of = for your
comparison. It enables you to search on substrings of all kind.
SELECT * from my_table where text_field1 like '.....'
or ...text_field1 ~ '.....'
This operator has extensive features. You should consult the manual.
Some examples :
.... ~ '^D' begins with D
.... ~ 'D'  contains D
.... ~ '^.D' has D in second place
.... ~* 'D' contains D or d
And so on. Really too much to mention. Hope this helps

Walter De Moudt

Peter Landis wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
>   I'm a newbie at postgresql and created a relational
> database with perl.  What my question is, how do you
> do a string search in postgresql?  I know you can
> search for string comparisons in oracle but was
> wondering if this is possible in postgresql?  So far
> I've been using the SELECT syntax for finding words in
> the database, but this is assuming that the word is
> exactly the same.  If anyone could advise me on this
> minor problem, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Peter Landis
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