Re: Wild Cards - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Brett W. McCoy
Subject Re: Wild Cards
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0101251424510.24881-100000@chapelperilous.net
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In response to Wild Cards  ("<No Name>" <bobmarley4u2c@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Wild Cards  (Rodger Donaldson <rodgerd@diaspora.gen.nz>)
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, <No Name> wrote:

> I am not able to get Wildcards in PostgreSQL, I know its * (asterisk), but
> its not working. can someone show me a example or something?

Wildcards where?  You can use * to mean all the fields in a table in a
SELECT statement, but if you are using LIKE in a WHERE clause, the
wildcards are % to mean any group of characters and _ to mean any single
character.

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