Validate Email Address in PostgreSQL with Regex
Use PostgreSQL ~ operator to validate email addresses. SQL examples for email validation with regex in Postgres databases.
The Regex Pattern
Regex pattern
^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$Use this pattern with PostgreSQL's ~ operator.
PostgreSQL SQL Example
-- Filter rows in PostgreSQL where email column passes regex validation check using the ~ regex match operator
SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE your_column ~ '^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+\\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\\-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$';How This Works
Filter rows in PostgreSQL where email column passes regex validation check using the ~ regex match operator. The regex pattern is used with PostgreSQL's ~ operator to filter rows at the database level.
Using regex directly in SQL is efficient for use cases like data validation — it avoids loading data into application memory just to filter it with a regex.
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