Re: Question with combining ANY with ilike

Rusty Conover <rconover@infogears.com> writes:

I'd like to specify a pattern then apply that pattern to match each  

element of an array:

rconover=# select 'foobar%' ~~ ANY (ARRAY['bar', 'cat', 'foobar:asdf']);

 ?column?

----------

 f

(1 row)

I'd like the the pattern would be evaluated against all of the array  

elements, but the order of parameters for the ~~ operator when  

combined with the ANY command is backwards to what I need.

Create a reverse-LIKE operator and underlying one-line SQL function.

regards, tom lane