PostgreSQL WHERE - Filter Data
Filter Records
The WHERE clause is used to filter records.
It is used to extract only those records that fulfill a specified condition.
If we want to return only the records where city is
London,
we can specify that in the WHERE clause:
Text Fields vs. Numeric Fields
PostgreSQL requires quotes around text values.
However, numeric fields should not be enclosed in quotes:
Quotes around numeric fields will not fail, but it is good practice to always write numeric values without quotes.
Greater than
Use the > operator to return all records where
customer_id is greater than 80:
Quotes around numeric fields will not fail, but it is good practice to always write numeric values without quotes.