Re: left outer join issue?

on 5/18/04 12:26 PM, dev(at)umpa-us(dot)com purportedly said:

> 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%") )
>
> a is setup for table1 and it is reference in a few other left outer joins.
>
> Those "other" outer joins work fine with out this new part

Your field reference is incorrect. Use concatenation:

ON (a.field1 ilike '%'||d.field2||'%') )

Remember in Postgres, double quotes are only used to delimit identifiers.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
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