select from pipe-delimited field

From: san man <neelakash21(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: select from pipe-delimited field
Date: 2010-08-23 22:44:09
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Hello all,

I am trying to do a SELECT operation with a WHERE condition. However, the
column with which I am trying to do the comparison has several values which
are pipe-delimited. I want to return a match(true) if the WHERE condition
matches any of the bar-delimited values.

For example, SELECT id WHERE synonyms = 'word';

Here synonyms is a pipe-delimited field and I want to match "word" with any
of the values of the synonyms fields.

Thanks in advance.

Neel

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