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Subject: Searching on seperate words in an attribute
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 12:41:42 CDT
From: Eric P Dean <ericdean@iastate.edu>
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I've been working with POSTGRES for a few weeks after a sucessfull
installation on a DEC 5000/133 running Ultrix 4.3.  My work-group
administrator did most of the installation work as I watched over his
shoulder.  I wonder if someone could tell me if it possible to create an
index that will locate instances by searching for words seperately in a
attribute.  For example:  If I have an attribute "artist = Gogh, Vincent
van" I would like to be able to locate the instance by doing a "retrieve
(xxx.all) where xxx.artist = "gogh"" or "retrieve (xxx.all) where
xxx.artist = "VAN"". I would like searches to be case-insensitive and
have some type of truncation feature.  If this is possible, can you
please tell me where I can find the information in the documentation.   

Many thanks

Eric Dean
Curator, Visual Resources Collection
College of Design, Iowa State University


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