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From: Christian Rusa <christian@rusa.at>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Closes Match
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:31:11 +0200
Message-ID: <42E521DF.4000804@rusa.at> (raw)

Hi there,

I want to match a string against the database and get the closest 
(shorter) match.
I was asking myself if its possible to realise this in SQL.

So if the string is:
abcdefg

And in the database are entries like:
a
ab
abc

I just want to get back 'abc'.

I looked around in the internet and the documentation but found no solution.

Cheers Christian

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