Thread: getting column value length

I need to return all rows in a table where one of the columns 'name' is 37+ characters.  In postgres, is there a function to get the length of the columns contents?


Thanks!

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 18:44 -0500, blackwater dev wrote:
> I need to return all rows in a table where one of the columns 'name'
> is 37+ characters.  In postgres, is there a function to get the length
> of the columns contents?
>
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-string.html

length()
>
> Thanks!
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blackwater dev wrote on 04.02.2009 00:44:
> I need to return all rows in a table where one of the columns 'name' is
> 37+ characters.  In postgres, is there a function to get the length of
> the columns contents?

Check out char_length()

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-string.html