On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:44 AM, san man <neelakas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > SELECT id FROM t WHERE 'word' = ANY(regexp_split_to_array(synonyms, '[|]')); With postgres it's possible to make an index on regexp_split_to_array(synonyms, '[|]')) for some extra speed. But its better to store the synonyms as an array in the first place. Thanks in advance. > > Neel >
