From: Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>
To: Travis Whitton <tinymountain@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Wildcard LIKE and Sub-select
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:01:10 -0600
Message-ID: <4554A246.3010701@myemma.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf9b4f3e0611100723r617301cen7f56902e288f1011@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cf9b4f3e0611100723r617301cen7f56902e288f1011@mail.gmail.com>
Travis Whitton wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have two tables of the following structure:
>
> Table "keywords"
>
> column | type
> ---------------------
> id | integer
> keyword | varchar(255)
>
> and
>
> Table "badwords"
>
> column | type
> ----------------------
> badword | varchar(255)
>
>
> I need to delete all the rows from the keywords table where badword
> partially matches the keyword field. I know I can do an exact match
> with a sub-select, but I'm not sure how to structure a wildcard match
> / like clause with a sub-select. Also, is that the best way to do it,
> or should I be looking into full-text? I have roughly 10 million
> keywords and 1 million badwords.
>
> Thanks,
> Travis
>
Hmm... Maybe (this is untested):
DELETE FROM keywords
USING badwords
WHERE keyword ILIKE ANY (SELECT '%' || badword || '%'
FROM badwords)
--
erik jones <erik@myemma.com>
software development
emma(r)
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