I am not very skilled at Postgresql specifically, but when I was doing
SQL in another environment I would just do
select distinct (or unique) jobtitle
usually getting a count of how many times each title occurred. Then I
would create a mapping to standardize the the job titles.
*Bryan Sayer*
Retired Demographer/Statistician
/In a world in which you can be anything, *be kind*/
On 11/26/2025 11:10 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2025, David G. Johnston wrote:
I was using this tool a while back when I was doing heavy regex work.
https://www.regexbuddy.com/
Keep in mind the native flavor of regex in PostgreSQL is TCL, not Perl.
But I’d still say regexp is not the best solution here - unless you
encapsulate the logic in a function. I suspect you’ll want to use this
logic in more than just a single query and with a literal regexp you
have
to rely on manual synchronization. Note, you could combine the lookup
table with regexes. Though beware of ensure you don’t produce duplicate
matches if you go that route.
David,
Thanks,
Rich
