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<h1 id="querying-and-segmenting-subscribers">Querying and segmenting subscribers<a class="headerlink" href="#querying-and-segmenting-subscribers" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h1>
<p>listmonk allows the writing of partial Postgres SQL expressions to query, filter, and segment subscribers.</p>
<h2 id="database-fields">Database fields<a class="headerlink" href="#database-fields" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p>These are the fields in the subscriber database that can be queried.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Field</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><code>subscribers.uuid</code></td>
<td>The randomly generated unique ID of the subscriber</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>subscribers.email</code></td>
<td>E-mail ID of the subscriber</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>subscribers.name</code></td>
<td>Name of the subscriber</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>subscribers.status</code></td>
<td>Status of the subscriber (enabled, disabled, blocklisted)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>subscribers.attribs</code></td>
<td>Map of arbitrary attributes represented as JSON. Accessed via the <code>-&gt;</code> and <code>-&gt;&gt;</code> Postgres operator.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>subscribers.created_at</code></td>
<td>Timestamp when the subscriber was first added</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>subscribers.updated_at</code></td>
<td>Timestamp when the subscriber was modified</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2 id="sample-attributes">Sample attributes<a class="headerlink" href="#sample-attributes" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p>Here's a sample JSON map of attributes assigned to an imaginary subscriber.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;city&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;Bengaluru&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;likes_tea&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">true</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;spoken_languages&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">&quot;English&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;Malayalam&quot;</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;projects&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;stack&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;frameworks&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">&quot;echo&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;go&quot;</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;languages&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s2">&quot;go&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;python&quot;</span><span class="p">],</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">&quot;preferred_language&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;go&quot;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</code></pre></div>
<p><img alt="listmonk screenshot" src="../images/edit-subscriber.png" /></p>
<h2 id="sample-sql-query-expressions">Sample SQL query expressions<a class="headerlink" href="#sample-sql-query-expressions" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2>
<p><img alt="listmonk" src="../images/query-subscribers.png" /></p>
<h4 id="find-a-subscriber-by-e-mail">Find a subscriber by e-mail<a class="headerlink" href="#find-a-subscriber-by-e-mail" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h4>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1">-- Exact match</span>
<span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">email</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;some@domain.com&#39;</span>
<span class="c1">-- Partial match to find e-mails that end in @domain.com.</span>
<span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">email</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">LIKE</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;%@domain.com&#39;</span>
</code></pre></div>
<h4 id="find-a-subscriber-by-name">Find a subscriber by name<a class="headerlink" href="#find-a-subscriber-by-name" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h4>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1">-- Find all subscribers whose name start with John.</span>
<span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">email</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">LIKE</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;John%&#39;</span>
</code></pre></div>
<h4 id="multiple-conditions">Multiple conditions<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-conditions" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h4>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1">-- Find all Johns who have been blocklisted.</span>
<span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">email</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">LIKE</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;John%&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">AND</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">status</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;blocklisted&#39;</span>
</code></pre></div>
<h4 id="querying-attributes">Querying attributes<a class="headerlink" href="#querying-attributes" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h4>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1">-- The -&gt;&gt; operator returns the value as text. Find all subscribers</span>
<span class="c1">-- who live in Bengaluru and have done more than 3 projects.</span>
<span class="c1">-- Here &#39;projects&#39; is cast into an integer so that we can apply the</span>
<span class="c1">-- numerical operator &gt;</span>
<span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">attribs</span><span class="o">-&gt;&gt;</span><span class="s1">&#39;city&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;Bengaluru&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">AND</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">attribs</span><span class="o">-&gt;&gt;</span><span class="s1">&#39;projects&#39;</span><span class="p">)::</span><span class="nb">INT</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">&gt;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">3</span>
</code></pre></div>
<h4 id="querying-nested-attributes">Querying nested attributes<a class="headerlink" href="#querying-nested-attributes" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h4>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1">-- Find all blocklisted subscribers who like to drink tea, can code Python</span>
<span class="c1">-- and prefer coding Go.</span>
<span class="c1">--</span>
<span class="c1">-- The -&gt; operator returns the value as a structure. Here, the &quot;languages&quot; field</span>
<span class="c1">-- The ? operator checks for the existence of a value in a list.</span>
<span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">status</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;blocklisted&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">AND</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">attribs</span><span class="o">-&gt;&gt;</span><span class="s1">&#39;likes_tea&#39;</span><span class="p">)::</span><span class="nb">BOOLEAN</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">true</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">AND</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">attribs</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="s1">&#39;stack&#39;</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="s1">&#39;languages&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">?</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;python&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">AND</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">subscribers</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">attribs</span><span class="o">-&gt;</span><span class="s1">&#39;stack&#39;</span><span class="o">-&gt;&gt;</span><span class="s1">&#39;preferred_language&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;go&#39;</span>
</code></pre></div>
<p>To learn how to write SQL expressions to do advancd querying on JSON attributes, refer to the Postgres <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/functions-json.html">JSONB documentation</a>.</p>
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