Thread: Suggest a query

Hi friends,

I have a  table in my postgre  data base.  In that table I have a field
called  folder_name  whose value will be full path of the mailbox . For
example    /gomathi/ax/ay/mbox  is the value of folder_name,
where mbox is the mail box.  I want  to find out all the mail boxes
whose parent is mbox.

Actually I can try as

Select folder_name from  mail_box where  folder_name like 'mbox/%' ;


but  I should not hard code the folder_name as given above  after
'like'.   SInce folder_name  comes as a parameter to the program the
value cannot be hardcoded.
Please suggest an alternative way to find out the sub folders of folder
mbox.


Regards,
gomathi

Hi Gomathi,

I could be wrong . . .   But I am pretty sure you are going to have to do
this
programmatically.  PHP is what we use for things like this.

David Boerwinkle

-----Original Message-----
From: gomathir <gomathir@technauts.com>
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Suggest a query


>Hi friends,
>
>I have a  table in my postgre  data base.  In that table I have a field
>called  folder_name  whose value will be full path of the mailbox . For
>example    /gomathi/ax/ay/mbox  is the value of folder_name,
>where mbox is the mail box.  I want  to find out all the mail boxes
>whose parent is mbox.
>
>Actually I can try as
>
>Select folder_name from  mail_box where  folder_name like 'mbox/%' ;
>
>
>but  I should not hard code the folder_name as given above  after
>'like'.   SInce folder_name  comes as a parameter to the program the
>value cannot be hardcoded.
>Please suggest an alternative way to find out the sub folders of folder
>mbox.
>
>
>Regards,
>gomathi
>
>