Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Johnson
Subject Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list
Date
Msg-id CANzqJaAJWTjLjn2v3kTcephXx=oo6Wt+k-8wR_P4qbFpA3heyQ@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Selecting all variations of job title in a list  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
Responses Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list
List pgsql-general
On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
Companies can have slightly different titles for the same job; for example
(using abbreviations). 'Asst Gen Mgr.', 'Env Mgr,', 'Gen Mgr,'. 'Mgr,',
'Plant Mgr.'

I want to select all people table rows that contain these varieties. I know
the 'like' operator uses '%' as a wildcard, but is not accepted in an 'in'
list.

Is there a way to use a multicharacter wildcard in an 'in' list?

Maybe regex_match() with a bunch of OR clauses.

In bash, I'd do something like:
grep -E ' ^Asst Gen Mgr.*|^Env Mgr.*|^Gen Mgr.*|^Mgr.*|^Plant Mgr..*' foo.txt

--
Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce.
Don't boil me, I'm still alive.
<Redacted> lobster!

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Rich Shepard
Date:
Subject: Selecting all variations of job title in a list
Next
From: Adrian Klaver
Date:
Subject: Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list