From: | Wes James <comptekki(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Kevin Crain <kevin(dot)crain1(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: combining strings to make a query |
Date: | 2011-07-13 15:36:40 |
Message-ID: | CAFjCMHv2suaCMTdDZMa133UT8mPvGT8Aiv3xd1oMZrT1OETKeg@mail.gmail.com |
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Thank you for the tsvectors info!
-wes
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Kevin Crain <kevin(dot)crain1(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> You can do full-text search in postgres now using ts_vectors. I'd
> recommend going that route. Doing like comparisons is not a good idea
> if you don't know the first part of the string you are searching
> for....It appears to be much faster from my experience to search for
> ab% than it is to search for %ab%.
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Wes James <comptekki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I'm using Erlang and postgresql to build a web interface. When I
>> create the query string I get something like:
>>
>> select * from table where field::text ilike '%\\\\%'
>>
>> But when I do that (if someone types in '\' for part of the text
>> search), I get a pg log entry to use E'\\'
>>
>> How would I use E'' with ilike '%%'. ilike E'%\\%' doesn't work.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -wes
>>
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