View Filtered Rows technique

Started by Dale Seaburgalmost 8 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Dale Seaburg
kg5lt@verizon.net

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

#2David G. Johnston
david.g.johnston@gmail.com
In reply to: Dale Seaburg (#1)
Re: View Filtered Rows technique

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.

https://www.pgadmin.org/support/list/

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.