Re: [SQL] SIMILAR TO

2010-10-16 Thread Rommel the iCeMAn
Thank you very much. I figured it was something simple but I am not proficient at regular expressions. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:30 AM To: Rommel the iCeMAn Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL]

Re: [SQL] SIMILAR TO

2010-10-16 Thread Tom Lane
Rommel the iCeMAn writes: > I use the following code to detect alphanumeric strings: > IF _my_variable SIMILAR TO '^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$' THEN >         // do stuff here > END IF; > In pg8.4 this worked perfectly. I upgraded to pg9.0 and it no longer > works. From the release notes it appears that the

[SQL] SIMILAR TO

2010-10-16 Thread Rommel the iCeMAn
Hi guys, I use the following code to detect alphanumeric strings: IF _my_variable SIMILAR TO '^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$' THEN         // do stuff here END IF; In pg8.4 this worked perfectly. I upgraded to pg9.0 and it no longer works. From the release notes it appears that the behavior of SIMILAR TO has ch

Re: [SQL] How to collect text-fields from multiple rows ?

2010-10-16 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Andreas wrote on 16.10.2010 05:23: Hi, how can I collect text-fields from multiple rows into one output row? I'd like to do an equivalent to the aggregate function SUM() only for text. The input is a select that shows among other things a numerical column where I would like to group by. The te