Question

I have a function called strip_tags defined in postgreSQL which strips out HTML tags in a given string.(I know trying to strip out html tags at db level is frowned upon, but i have to do this).

I want to extract some news from my db therefore I am executing a query:

SELECT description FROM news WHERE description ilike '%apple%'

Data in the description column is a mixture of html and text and i want to strip the html and then search if it matches ‘%apple%’ or not! somewhat like:

SELECT description FROM news WHERE (select strip_tags(description)) ilike '%apple%'

Is this possible in postgreSQL? I tried executing this query but it dint work!

Answer 1

You can use the function in your WHERE condition.

SELECT description 
FROM news 
WHERE strip_tags(description) ilike '%apple%'