Re: select a range of data - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: select a range of data
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In response to select a range of data  (Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com>)
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Jessica Richard <rjessil@yahoo.com> writes:
> how do I select col from table where col like 'a[a-z]c24[0-9]7"?
> How do I handle the range bracket in the query?

Using LIKE, you don't.  However there are two other types of
pattern-matching operators that do understand character classes:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-matching.html

            regards, tom lane

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