Re: [GENERAL] Question - Query based on WHERE OR

2007-01-12 Thread Ragnar
On miĆ°, 2007-01-10 at 17:38 -0800, Mike Poe wrote: I'm a rank newbie to Postgres am having a hard time getting my arms around this. I'm trying to construct a query to be run in a PHP script. I have an HTML form were someone can enter either a last name or a social security number then

[GENERAL] Question - Query based on WHERE OR

2007-01-11 Thread Mike Poe
I'm a rank newbie to Postgres am having a hard time getting my arms around this. I'm trying to construct a query to be run in a PHP script. I have an HTML form were someone can enter either a last name or a social security number then query the database based on what they entered. My query

Re: [GENERAL] Question - Query based on WHERE OR

2007-01-11 Thread John D. Burger
Mike Poe wrote: SELECT foo, baz, bar FROM public.table WHERE lastname ~* '$lastname' OR ssn='$ssn' I need to leave the last name a wildcard in case someone enters a partial name, lower case / upper case, etc. I want the SSN to match exactly if they search by that. The way it's written, if

Re: [GENERAL] Question - Query based on WHERE OR

2007-01-11 Thread SCassidy
To pgsql-general@postgresql.org cc Subject [GENERAL] Question - Query based on WHERE OR I'm a rank newbie to Postgres am having a hard time getting my arms around this. I'm trying to construct a query to be run in a PHP script. I have an HTML form were someone can enter either a last name