>>select id from tablename where message like '%sql%';
>>
>>If there any way to determine exactly how many times 'sql' is matched in
>>that search in each particular row, and then sort by the most matches,
>>or am I going to have to write a script to do the sorting for me?
>>
You could probably write a function in postgres (say, "matchcount()")
which returns the match count (possibly using perl and a regex).
SELECT matchcount(message,'sql') AS matchcount, id
FROM tablename
WHERE message LIKE '%sql%'
ORDER BY matchcount(message,'sql') DESC
The ORDER BY will probably fail, but you can try :)
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