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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruno Wolff III
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 10:50 AM
To: Christian Rusa
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Closes Match
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 19:31:11 +0200,
Christian Rusa
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 19:31:11 +0200,
Christian Rusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I want to match a string against the database and get the closest
> (shorter) match.
> I was asking myself if its possible to realise this in SQL.
>
> So if the string is:
> abcdefg
>
> And in th
Hi there,
I want to match a string against the database and get the closest
(shorter) match.
I was asking myself if its possible to realise this in SQL.
So if the string is:
abcdefg
And in the database are entries like:
a
ab
abc
I just want to get back 'abc'.
I looked around in the internet
