Re: left outer join issue?

From: Mike Rylander <miker(at)purplefrog(dot)com>
To: Dev <dev(at)umpa-us(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: left outer join issue?
Date: 2004-05-18 19:07:15
Message-ID: 200405181507.15456.miker@purplefrog.com
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On Tuesday 18 May 2004 02:26 pm, Dev wrote:
> At 02:28 PM 5/18/2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 14:10:04 -0400,
> >
> > Dev <dev(at)umpa-us(dot)com> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I need to do a left out join where a.field1 ilike %b.field2%
> > >
> > > But I can not figure out the exact syntax to using the ilike in the
> > > join?
> >
> >Use the ON clause syntax.
>
> Here is what it actually looks like
> LEFT OUTER JOIN table4 AS d ON (a.field1 ilike "%d.field2%") )

Use
LEFT OUTER JOIN table4 AS d ON (a.field1 ILIKE '%' || d.field2 || '%')

-miker

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