Which postgres adapter are you using?
Try
- contains('%Smith')
and (for case-insensitive query)
- contains('%smith', case_sensitive=False)
Paolo
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 9:26:24 PM UTC+2, Tom Stratton wrote:
>
> For me, with the postgres adapter, the "contains" method is only returning
> information when one of the items in the list is an exact match (case
> insensitive) for the item I search for.
>
> so if the list is ['John Doe', 'Michael Smith', 'Karen Jones', 'Anne
> Baker']
>
> contains('Michael Smith') returns the row but
> contains('Smith') does not
>
> I would like to be able to do
> xxxx('% b%) and get back the row - Matching 'Anne Baker'
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7:15:41 PM UTC-7, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> db.tablename.fieldname.contains('whatever')
>>
>>
>>
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