I haven't done this myself, but I strongly suspect the usage is more like
SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE somefield ~ '^d' ;
Doug Gorley | douggorley@shaw.ca
Hi,
I'm working through Bruce Momjian's online tutorial on PostreSQL, and am
now trying to get my head around regular expressions. The tutorial says
that ~ '^X' where 'X' is a character, will find table entries beginning
with that character.
When I try it ...
SELECT * FROM testdb ~'^d' ;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "~"
I get this, irrespective of the regular expression that I use. It _is_ a
tilde, isn't it ? Or is my eyesight going ..? :-(
Thanks.
D.
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