select id from tablename where message like '%sql%';
If there any way to determine exactly how many times 'sql' is matched in that search in each particular row, and then sort by the most matches, or am I going to have to write a script to do the sorting for me?
You could probably write a function in postgres (say, "matchcount()") which returns the match count (possibly using perl and a regex).
SELECT matchcount(message,'sql') AS matchcount, id FROM tablename WHERE message LIKE '%sql%' ORDER BY matchcount(message,'sql') DESC
The ORDER BY will probably fail, but you can try :)
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