Re: Syntax for wildcard selection

> This question just came up from a user use to our Informix application. They
> tried to do a wildcard search, thus "where field_name LIKE 'AB%VN'". The
> trailing values (after the %) are not recognized correctly. With Informix
> 4GL, we wrote "where field_name MATCHES 'AB*VN'". This finds any combination
> of values with 'AB' as the first two characters, and 'VN' as the last two,
> with any number of characters in between - including blanks. How is this
> accomplished with PostgreSQL? Are we limited to wildcard searches as "where
> field_name LIKE 'AB%'"?

Trailing stuff should always be recognized, and I am sure PostgreSQL
does this.

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