On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:16:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Question 2: If not - is it possible for me to concatenate attr1 and 
> attr2 before i do the search as this would remove the logic problems. ( 
> and if it is possible - is it efficient?)

I don't know the answer to your other problems, but the "||" operator
allows you to concatenate.  And "where field1||field2 = 'something'"
works.  Whether it'd be efficienct is another question.  Maybe you
could do something fancy with a partial index or something, but I
can't think how.

A

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