Re: Question about pattern matching

Thanks depesz,

It was really helpful

Dimitris.

-----Original Message-----
From: depesz@depesz.com [mailto:depesz@depesz.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:18 PM
To: dimitris.sakellarios@telesuite.gr
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Question about pattern matching

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:05:08PM +0200, dimitris.sakellarios@telesuite.gr
wrote:
> QUESTION
> --------
> Pls let me know which is the best way to match the
> following pattern against this table and Receive id = 8
> that is the longest matching pattern from left to right.

check this:
http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2008/03/04/searching-for-longest-prefix/
read also the comments

additionally, check this url: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/prefix

Best regards,

depesz

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