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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:16:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Regular Expressions
To: ezequias@fastcon.com.br, Guy Fraser <guy@incentre.net>,
	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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> Could you give me a hand ?
> 
> I have a ZipCode table and my address table
> 
> I just would like to find out all matches that my zipcode table has where my 
> address table appears like this:
> 
> Elmo Street, 30
> 
> I would like my SQL find out all matches we can find 'Elmo', 'Street'.
> 

select zipcode
from zipzodetable
where address ~ 'Elmo'
and address ~ 'Street';

If the query is too slow I expect that installing the tsearch2 contrib module and using the
tsearch2 type queries would give you want you wanted but in a fraction of the time.

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.