POSITION (binary)
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The POSITION() function finds the first position of a binary string within another binary string, starting with 1.
SELECT
position(cast('hello' as bytea), cast('e' as bytea)),
position(cast('hello' as bytea), cast('l' as bytea), 4);
create.select(
binaryPosition("hello".getBytes(), "e".getBytes()),
binaryPosition("hello".getBytes(), "e".getBytes(), 4)).fetch();
The result being
+----------+----------+ | position | position | +----------+----------+ | 2 | 4 | +----------+----------+
See POSITION for a text version of this function.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
binaryPosition("hello".getBytes(), "e".getBytes())
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
position(CAST(E'\\145' AS bytea) IN CAST(E'\\150\\145\\154\\154\\157' AS bytea))
Databricks, Redshift
position(X'65' IN X'68656C6C6F')
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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