From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
To: Kiran <kumar.m.kiran@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best Fit SQL query statement
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:59:49 +0200
Message-ID: <20070810075949.GA31829@depesz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186390627.045596.148460@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:57:07AM -0700, Kiran wrote:
> Could anyone help me in writing Best Fit SQL statement.
> Suppose we have table t1 with coloumn t1 (text) with following rows.
> 98456
> 98457
> 9845
> 9846
> 984
> 985
> 98
> 99
> and if I query on 98456 the result must be 98456,
> However if I query on 98455 the result must be 9845
> and If I query 9849 the result must be 984
select t1.t1 from t1 where '98456' like t1.t1||'%' order by length(t1.t1) desc limit 1;
should be ok.
depesz
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