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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:19:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: landsharkdaddy <ldodd@landsharksoftware.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query with Parameters and Wildcards
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When I try the following like you suggested I get an error that says
"operator does not exist: || unknown


SELECT customercellphone, customercity, customerdatecreated,
customerdatelastmodified, customeremail, customerfax, customerfirstname,
customerid, customerlastname, customermiddleinitial, customerphone,
customerreferredby, customerstateabbr, customerstreet1, customerstreet2,
customersuffix, customertitle, customerworkphone, customerworkphoneext,
customerzip FROM lanemanager.customers WHERE (customerlastname ILIKE || '%')


landsharkdaddy wrote:
> 
> I have a query that works on SQL Server to return customers that contain
> the string entered by the user by accepting parameters and using the LIKE
> keyword. I would like to move this to postgreSQL but I'm just not sure how
> to get it done. This is the query 
> 
> SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName LIKE @custfirst + '%'; 
> 
> This works great on SQL Server but not on postgreSQL. Any help would be
> appreciated.
> 

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