From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: emilu@encs.concordia.ca
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: where col1 not ilike ('str1%', 'str2%'... 'strN%') support?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:24:36 -0400
Message-ID: <16967.1314717876@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5CF8F8.7030404@encs.concordia.ca>
References: <4E5CF8F8.7030404@encs.concordia.ca>
Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca> writes:
> Does psql provide something like the following query command?
> select * from tablename
> where col1 not ilike ('str1%', 'str2%'... 'strN%')
If you remember the operator name equivalent to ILIKE (~~*)
you can do
select * from tablename
where not (col1 ~~* any(array['str1%', 'str2%'... 'strN%']));
regards, tom lane
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