Re: SELECT of a glob

From: Lan Barnes <lan(at)falleagle(dot)net>
To: Postgres Newbie <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SELECT of a glob
Date: 2006-04-11 18:01:46
Message-ID: 20060411180146.GA31031@falleagle.net
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:51:03AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
> I'm searching my many SQL books, but this eludes me, and I was sure
> there was a syntax for it. I want to send out a select statement that
> finds every string in a field that is essentially larger than (or
> smaller than) a globbed string.
>
> This "... where version_label >= BLD_1*" would return:
>
> BLD_1.0
> BLD_1.1
> BLD_1.2
> BLD_1.4
>
> But not:
>
>
> BLD_0.9
>
> For some reason the keyword "LIKE" is rattling around in my head, but I
> can't find any support for this. Do I have to do this programatically?
>

Answering my own question -- I found it:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE version_label LIKE 'BLD_1%';

The single quotes were the hold up.

Thanks to anyone about to help me ;-)

--
Lan Barnes lan(at)falleagle(dot)net
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