Re: Concatenating strings within a function definition

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: nishad@ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-11-04T19:32:42Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Nishad Prakash <prakashn@uci.edu> writes:
> I'm trying to create a function like so:

> create function get_lid_prefix (text) returns setof int as
> 'select lid from ilemma where lemma ~ \'^\' + upper($1)'
> language 'sql';

'select lid from ilemma where lemma ~ (\'^\' || upper($1))'

			regards, tom lane