From: Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: where col1 not ilike ('str1%', 'str2%'... 'strN%') support?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:48:38 -0400
Message-ID: <4E5D0656.8090709@encs.concordia.ca> (raw)
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<16967.1314717876@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On 08/30/2011 11:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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%']));
Thank you Tom!
If next version could have "not ilike ('', '')" added into window
functions, that's will be great!
Emi
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