At 08:04 25/09/2011, haman...@t-online.de wrote:

>> select * from items where regexp_matches(items.code,'(ABC) (DE1)
>> (any_substring)')<>{};
>>

Hi Eduardo,

it is clear that scanning the table once with a list of matches will outperform rescanning the table for every string wanted. Now, my problem is that the patterns are dynamic as well. So if I could translate a table with one column and a few thousand rows
into something like
regexp_matches(code,'string1|string2|.....string2781')
would ideally be a performant query. Unfortunately I have no idea how I could achieve this transformation inside the database. Doing it externally fails, because any single query cannot
be more than so few characters.

You can create a plsql function and pass a setof text that do it. Sorry but instead saying you What Must You Type, WMYT(c), i prefer the How Should You Do way, HSYD(c). Note that you can get the same results using other approachs (f.ex. using FTS described in chapter 12)

Check this topics:

Function Creation http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-createfunction.html

Tutorial about Function Creation http://www.adderpit.com/practical-postgresql/x10374.htm

HTH


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