Many thanks for all of the assistance on this question.
I can't say I've ever seen the "a in b" syntax in postgres, but
you live and learn. ;-)
Thanks again.
Karl.
In article <slrn9loctm.qsr.karl@azrael.tecc.co.uk>, Karl Orbell wrote:
> 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.
>