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From Vick Khera
Subject Re: How to search a string inside a json structure
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In response to Re: How to search a string inside a json structure  (Sami Pietilä <sami.pietila@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Sami Pietilä <sami.pietila@gmail.com> wrote:
Unfortunately I could not figure out how to select rows which, for example, contain following json: '{"a":"world","c":{"b":"helloworld"}}' by search with "hello" string.

cast the field to a text:

select * from t where myfield::text like '%hello%';

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