Re: Postgres and MySQL Rosetta stone?? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: Postgres and MySQL Rosetta stone??
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In response to Re: Postgres and MySQL Rosetta stone??  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> In particular, MySQl seems to have richer string functions to parse
>> out sub strings and als trim a string for automatic table insertion
>> from long multifield strings.
>
> Have you read the postgresql manual on string functions?  Seriously,
> it's easily a match for MySQL in that arena, and beats it hands down
> in a few.

And if you need more - like extracting Noun Clauses from sentences
you can do that with PostgreSQL and Pl/Perl using natural language
processing libraries that are callable from perl.

I'd be interested to know how MySQL would handle that kind
of string processing function.

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