I finally reread the page and figured it out.
select vend_id from products where vend_id ~ '.*LL.*'
^^^^
Somehow I couldn't grok the idea of an operator vs a keyword.
John Zwiebel wrote:
> Could someone please provide me with the syntax for a REGEXP that will
> match a column in a table?
>
> ie, this works using "similar to":
> select prod_id, prod_desc, vend_id from products where\
> vend_id similar to '\[D|F]%'
>
>
> In the docs:
> pgsql/doc/html/functions-matching.html para 9.7.3
>
> I'm suppose to be able to use POSIX regular expressions.
>
> Say I want to match all the vendor IDs with "LL" located anywere
> inside the vend_id.
>
> select vend_id from products where <Now What???>
>
> All of the examples in this section discuss "select substring"
>
> All the variations I've tried of the following either are
> syntax errors or 'type "vend_id" does not exist'.
> SELECT vend_id from products where substring (vend_id '.*LL.*');
>
> Thanks