Re: SELECT question (splitting a field)

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
>> nmc=> SELECT 'Y' AS local FROM domains WHERE '@'||dom_name IN 
>> ('mkelly@test.com');
>>  local
>> -------
>> (0 rows)
>>
>>   Not work?
> 
> I don't think IN does what you think it does. It's not a substring-test, 
> but a set test:
> 
> SELECT 1 WHERE 'x' IN ('a','b','c','x');
> SELECT a FROM foo WHERE b IN (SELECT z FROM bar WHERE frozzled<>wamble);
> 
> You could mess around with substring() and length() or I'd use LIKE.
> 
> If it's just a domain you're looking for though, might be most efficient 
> to strip the leading part off your value with regexp_replace().

Yeah, that was my problem. I thought I was using the section following 
the '@'. =/

I've been using Postgres for a while now, but only recently getting into 
some of the fancier stuff. Until now, I've usually written the program 
using PgSQL so I could manipulate the data as I needed. Now I am using 
PgSQL as a backend for a few other applications so I am restricted to 
using PgSQL to manipulate the data.

It's all left me feeling quite n00bish again. ;)

I did figure out a query that worked:

SELECT 'Y' AS local FROM domains d, users u WHERE u.usr_dom_id=d.dom_id 
AND u.usr_email||'@'||d.dom_name IN ('mkelly@test.com');

Though this may not be the most efficient. In my case, the 'usr_email' 
is the LHS of the '@' sign and 'dom_name' is the domain name. If I 
wanted to use (I)LIKE, how would I have matched just the domain section 
of 'mkelly@test.com' in 'dom_name'?

I'll go read up, now that I've got some key words to search the docs on.

Thanks kindly!

Madi