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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))

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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