Re: Query inside RTF

From: Emanuel Calvo Franco <postgres(dot)arg(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: l(dot)rame(at)griensu(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Query inside RTF
Date: 2009-10-08 20:51:14
Message-ID: f205bb120910081351w1e18b4a3v509e6a41e9d8a879@mail.gmail.com
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2009/10/8 Leonardo M. <l(dot)rame(at)griensu(dot)com>:
> On jue, 2009-10-08 at 17:01 -0300, Emanuel Calvo Franco wrote:
>> > select
>> >  *
>> > from my_table
>> > where
>> >  cast(rtf_field as varchar) like '%condition%'
>> >
>> > This works ok when the condition doesn't include accented chars. RTF
>> > escapes accented characters as "\'f1" for í, "\'f3" for ó, and so on.
>> >
>> > To escape \ and ', I'd read it shuld be used \\ and '', so I thaugth
>> > that a like '%diagn\\\\''f3stica%' should get "diagnóstica", but it
>> > doesn't.
>> >
>>
>> I prefer use
>>
>> select * from table where i_bytea::text ~~ $$%\\row%$$;
>>
>> Dollar quoting is more clean to put strings inside than ' '. ~~ is
>> like operator.
>> And :: operand is more clean to the syntax of the query.
>> Don't think so? :)
>
> It looks nice!, the only problem is I'm still forced to set
> standard_conforming_strings = 1;
>
>

part=# set standard_conforming_strings = 0;
SET
part=# select * from p where i::text ~~ $$%\\\\f3%$$;
i
--------
\\\\f3
\\\\f3
(2 rows)

part=# select * from p where i::text ~~ $$%\\\\"f3%$$;
i
---------
\\\\"f3
(1 row)

part=# select * from p where i::text ~~ $$%\\\\''f3%$$;
i
----------
\\\\''f3
(1 row)

I don't have any problem, wich enconding you are using?
(select getdatabaseencoding(); )

--
Emanuel Calvo Franco
DBA at: www.siu.edu.ar
www.emanuelcalvofranco.com.ar

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