Re: 'select where' using multiple columns. - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Ian Johannesen wrote:

>Hi.
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>Rob Kirkbride wrote:
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>>I've got a persons name which is being stored say in 3 columns :- 
>>Title, Forename_1, Forename_2, Surname. I want to allow a search say for
>>'John Smith'. Problem is I can't just break it up into forename and
>>surname because I won't also know.
>>Is there a way to do something like a
>>'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%'   ??
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>SELECT * FROM table WHERE forename_1 || ' ' || forename_2 || ' ' ||
>surname LIKE '%String%';
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Thanks for the quick response. I've tried that and it works fine. Thanks 
a lot and thanks to Daq and Helder.

Rob