Thank you Jeff 

Nice . I also looked at  akeys/skeys 


My goal is to get the key by pattern matching and then passing it back like in 
col1->key

Armand




On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Armand Pirvu (home) <armand.pi...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have the following case
> 
> 
> select * from foo;
>                                       col1
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  "show_id"=>"1", "group_id"=>"32", "group_name"=>"slb", 
> "group_add_by"=>"557651"
>  "show_id"=>"2", "group_id"=>"33", "group_name"=>"slc", 
> "item_add_by"=>"557652"
> (2 rows)
> 
> Is there anyway I can do a pattern search by hstore key name something like
> 
> select * from foo where skeys(col1) like '%add_by%';
> 
> I looked on the doc but did not see anything , or did I miss it ?
> 
> select * from foo where array_to_string(akeys(x),';') like '%add\_by%';
> 
> Note that I back-slashed the underscore, otherwise it acts as a wildcard and 
> may match more than you bargained for.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeff
> 

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