Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2025, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > Maybe regex_match() with a bunch of OR clauses.
> >
> > In bash, I'd do something like:
> > grep -E ' ^Asst Gen Mgr.*|^Env Mgr.*|^Gen Mgr.*|^Mgr.*|^Plant Mgr..*'
> > foo.txt
>
> Ron,
>
> I've not used regex in postgres before, only in emacs and small languages.
> So I'll learn how to do this. I was trying to avoid multiple OR clauses,
> but
> that script will not be run often so it should not matter.
>

Failed clarity on my part. The "OR clauses" are within the regex string.

Note that The Relational Way of doing this is for everyone to have
title_code in their "person" record, and the "title" table will have, in
addition to the title_code PK column, the title_description,
title_abbreviation ( 'Asst Gen Mgr.', 'Env Mgr,', 'Gen Mgr,'. 'Mgr,',
'Plant Mgr.') and title_group columns. All those manager titles would be
in the same group. You'd then join "person" to "title" and filter where
title_group="mumble".

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