Thread: View Filtered Rows technique

View Filtered Rows technique

From
Dale Seaburg
Date:
I am looking for a convenient way to search a specific table where a 
specific column contains a string like this: "\2016\    \" (within the 
quote-marks, but not including the quote-marks).  I haven't found 
anything in the documentation (8.4.5).  I am using the View Data | View 
Filtered Rows method.  I was hoping there might be a 'CONTAINS' clause 
that would do the trick.  Any clues or help is appreciated.

Dale



Re: View Filtered Rows technique

From
"David G. Johnston"
Date:
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Dale Seaburg <kg5lt@verizon.net> wrote:
I am looking for a convenient way to search a specific table where a specific column contains a string like this: "\2016\    \" (within the quote-marks, but not including the quote-marks).  I haven't found anything in the documentation (8.4.5).  I am using the View Data | View Filtered Rows method.  I was hoping there might be a 'CONTAINS' clause that would do the trick.  Any clues or help is appreciated.

​This sounds like a pgAdmin question and should be addressed to them.


You should also be checking the pgAdmin docs, not PostgreSQL proper (the version you indicate is an ancient and unsupported PostgreSQL release).  Using pure SQL you'd do something like:

col ~ '\\\d{6}\\\s+\\' (regular expression match operator)

depending upon what exactly you mean by "like this"...

David J.