Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> --- Ron St-Pierre <ron.pgsql@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure that others have solved this but I can't find anything
>> with my
>> (google and archive) searches. I need to retrieve data where the text
>> field is within a certain range e.g.
>> A-An
>> Am-Bc
>> Bc-Eg
>> ....
>
> Regular expressions would work, but a between statement should work
> also.
>
> SELECT *
> FROM Your_table AS YT
> WHERE YT.text_field BETWEEN 'Aa' AND 'An';
Ron, in case it's not clear, if an index on text_field exists, the
planner can use it to make such queries run relatively fast.
- John D. Burger
MITRE
