Re: Regular Expressions and SELECT

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 02:07 pm, Desmond Coughlan wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working through Bruce Momjian's online tutorial on PostreSQL, and am
> now trying to get my head around regular expressions. The tutorial says
> that ~ '^X' where 'X' is a character, will find table entries beginning
> with that character.
>
> When I try it ...
>
> SELECT * FROM testdb ~'^d' ;
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "~"
>
> I get this, irrespective of the regular expression that I use. It _is_ a
> tilde, isn't it ? Or is my eyesight going ..? :-(
>
> Thanks.
>
> D.

You're missing the 'where clause', for example

SELECT * FROM testdb where name~'^d';

I won't comment on your eyesight ;)

-Doug