SELECTing Related Rows Based on a Single Row Match - sql

Question

I have the following table running on Postgres SQL 9.5:
+---+------------+-------------+
|ID | trans_id | message |
+---+------------+-------------+
| 1 | 1234567 | abc123-ef |
| 2 | 1234567 | def234-gh |
| 3 | 1234567 | ghi567-ij |
| 4 | 8902345 | ced123-ef |
| 5 | 8902345 | def234-bz |
| 6 | 8902345 | ghi567-ij |
| 7 | 6789012 | abc123-ab |
| 8 | 6789012 | def234-cd |
| 9 | 6789012 | ghi567-ef |
|10 | 4567890 | abc123-ab |
|11 | 4567890 | gex890-aj |
|12 | 4567890 | ghi567-ef |
+---+------------+-------------+
I am looking for the rows for each trans_id based on a LIKE query, like this:
SELECT * FROM table
WHERE message LIKE '%def-234%'
This, of course, returns just three rows, the three that match my pattern in the message column. What I am looking for, instead, is all the rows matching that trans_id in groups of messages that match. That is, if a single row matches the pattern, get all the rows with the trans_id of that matching row.
That is, the results would be:
+---+------------+-------------+
|ID | trans_id | message |
+---+------------+-------------+
| 1 | 1234567 | abc123-ef |
| 2 | 1234567 | def234-gh |
| 3 | 1234567 | ghi567-ij |
| 4 | 8902345 | ced123-ef |
| 5 | 8902345 | def234-bz |
| 6 | 8902345 | ghi567-ij |
| 7 | 6789012 | abc123-ab |
| 8 | 6789012 | def234-cd |
| 9 | 6789012 | ghi567-ef |
+---+------------+-------------+
Notice rows 10, 11, and 12 were not SELECTed because there was not one of them that matched the %def-234% pattern.
I have tried (and failed) to write a sub-query to get the all the related rows when a single message matches a pattern:
SELECT sub.*
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT trans_id FROM table WHERE message LIKE '%def-234%'
) sub
WHERE table.trans_id = sub.trans_id
I could easily do this with two queries, but the first query to get a list of matching trans_ids to include in a WHERE trans_id IN (<huge list of trans_ids>) clause would be very large, and would not be a very inefficient way of doing this, and I believe there exists a way to do it with a single query.
Thank you!

Answer 1

This will do the job I think :
WITH sub AS (
SELECT trans_id
FROM table
WHERE message LIKE '%def-234%'
)
SELECT *
FROM table JOIN sub USING (trans_id);
Hope this help.

Answer 2

Try this:
SELECT ID, trans_id, message
FROM (
SELECT ID, trans_id, message,
COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE message LIKE '%def234%')
OVER (PARTITION BY trans_id) AS pattern_cnt
FROM mytable) AS t
WHERE pattern_cnt >= 1
Using a FILTER clause in the windowed version of COUNT function we can get the number of records matching the predefined pattern within each trans_id slice. The outer query uses this count to filter out irrelevant slices.
Demo here

Answer 3

You can do this.
WITH trans
AS
(SELECT DISTINCT trans_id
FROM t1
WHERE message LIKE '%def234%')
SELECT t1.*
FROM t1,
trans
WHERE t1.trans_id = trans.trans_id;
I think this will perform better. If you have enough data, you can do an explain on both Sub query and CTE and compare the output.