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 11:57:10 -0400
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Hi Tom,
>>> select * from tablename
>>> where not (col1 ~~* any(array['str1%', 'str2%'... 'strN%']));
>
>> If next version could have "not ilike ('', '')" added into window
>> functions, that's will be great!
>
> Why? And what's this got to do with window functions?
First, where not (col1 ~~* any(array['str1%', 'str2%'... 'strN%'])) will
work for me.
But I feel " ilike ('str1', ... 'strN')" is more intuitive, isn't it?
I have a feeling that windows functions deal with all fancy functions. I
would consider ilike ('str'...) as a non-standard SQL command?
Emi
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