Re: select exact term

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Marc Fromm <Marc(dot)Fromm(at)wwu(dot)edu> wrote:
> Is there a way to create a select statement that will select a record if the
> exact term is found in a field that contains the text to describe something?

In addition to what has been suggested before you may find interesting
full text search abilities
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/textsearch.html. It allows
to do more complex searches like this:

SELECT title, ts_rank_cd(textsearch, query) AS rank
FROM apod, to_tsquery('neutrino|(dark & matter)') query
WHERE query @@ textsearch
ORDER BY rank DESC
LIMIT 10;

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