> I'm considering implementing a search box on my review web site > http://lesculturelles.net and am looking for a simple way to match > entered words against several columns on related tables: > show.show_name, story.title, person.firtname, person.lastname, etc.
one solution would be a view: create view search_v as select 'show'::name as tab_nm, show_id as tab_pk, 'Show Name' as description, show_name as search from show union select 'story'::name, story_id, 'Story Title', title from story union ... your query would be select * from search_v where '$string' ilike search this would return a list the user could use to drill down further. many ways to skin this cat. ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
