Re: how to count string occurrence in column

From: "Jules Alberts" <jules(dot)alberts(at)arbodienst-limburg(dot)nl>
To: postgres <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how to count string occurrence in column
Date: 2002-08-27 09:51:43
Message-ID: 200208270952.g7R9q9SO028562@artemis.cuci.nl
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On 27 Aug 2002 at 10:35, Lee Kindness wrote:
> Actually i'm sure the original poster is after something like:
>
> SELECT count('qwerty qwert qwertyffff fff qq', 'qwerty');
> count
> --------
> 2
> (1 row)
>
> But off the top of my head i cannot think of a suitable standard
> function...

Woops, posted too quick. Maybe my posting doesn't answer the original
question:

column1
row 1 'test test'
row 2 'test'

My statement would count 2. Maybe the OP would want 3. In that case, I
think you'll have to write some code that counts substring occurences.

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