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From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:10:16 -0800 (PST)
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2025, Vincent Veyron wrote:

> As Ron wrote, a regexp would do it, I guess?
>
> SELECT * FROM people WHERE title ~ 'Asst Gen Mgr|Env Mgr|Gen Mgr|Mgr|Plant Mgr';
>
> Although in your example, you would get the same result with just:
>
> SELECT * FROM people WHERE title ~ 'Mgr';
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP

Vincent,

Learning postgres regexp is at the top of my list.

Thanks,

Rich

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