Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tv842-0002Sc-UF for pgsql-sql@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:04:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tv842-0003vW-FJ for pgsql-sql@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:04:34 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([98.129.198.125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tv841-0003vQ-Ep for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:04:33 +0000 Received: from mail-ie0-f178.google.com ([209.85.223.178]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tv840-0007Fn-AY for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:04:32 +0000 Received: by mail-ie0-f178.google.com with SMTP id c12so312618ieb.37 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:04:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dwUVcEqGN8UcwYYm1jNmsyAbQ9HK4yJZYJT/7zMOal0=; b=exQXcGJkxujETVhP+JJGl/aoMikEqVk8Fvh4WLKei1uoxxoZnR/t/5ViIoCKNfp3FH Bo0XW3X9GOmkDbGJpJU1QdrNljGMQZQuZ+F6GIQ3QSGlCtIDlLxp6XtS0VAgGba/JMyX cWiT/CljAAJUUNxVu5whg2KyRMQw3yy3GWAUkihBgUXM+89XyYiMgLI+WeRzhzTluuuV TSqc0fdDewGAs0/YoSWQi2Ydsf/nD0kjMO1Pwd5fM4E81Vc9ZKCARLrR+vZWzrz01IuH 1VFYvxPihwdaDBVzjI/h87pL/yhxCPjwRL63J+MMEqJY08KMi5WujMZeAzrR9OlHqKRj rrxw== X-Received: by 10.50.51.231 with SMTP id n7mr1864252igo.85.1358262271665; Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:04:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.20.96] ([23.30.56.214]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bh3sm2032098igc.0.2013.01.15.07.04.30 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:04:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50F56FF7.9000701@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:04:23 -0700 From: Rob Sargent User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't this work References: <1358250600.37670.YahooMailNeo@web162804.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1358250600.37670.YahooMailNeo@web162804.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-sql Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org On 01/15/2013 04:50 AM, Barbara Woolums wrote: > I am running a query like so > > SELECT id FROM image WHERE image='demo-harvey wallbanger.jpg' > > It returns nothing > > My table looks like this > > "demo-820.jpg";1 > "demo-lemon-mousse-1.jpg";2 > "demo-pumpkinchaibars.jpg";3 > "demo-Lolly-Shop.jpg";4 > "demo-scan0001.jpg";5 > "demo-cherry-chocolate-mousse-pie.jpg";6 > "demo-harvey wallbanger.jpg > ";7 > > Cheers > Barbara Try select id from image where image.image ~'demo-harvey wallbanger'; If you example data is correct, I think you have a line-feed char after '.jpg' -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql