You are confusing the syntax of two similar functions:
position ('substring' in 'string')
strpos ('string', 'substring').
I have a feeling that "position" actually calls "strpos", but I am guessing
on that.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: karl@tecc.co.uk [SMTP:karl@tecc.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 9:27 AM
> To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: position(text,text) function
>
> I'm having trouble using the position function, it's a simple built-in
> function.
>
> It returns the index of a substring within a main string.
>
> But, I just can't get it to work, it always gives this silly parser error.
> I've tried it in a variety of ways with variables instead of constants
> casting
> to text and using it in other contexts, (ie. in functions, not just in a
> select). What am I doing wrong? Is this not the correct syntax for a two
>
> argument function?
>
> test=# select position('hello','el');
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ","
>
>
> Karl Orbell.
>
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