Re: LIKE/ESCAPE implementation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan(at)olemiss(dot)edu>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: LIKE/ESCAPE implementation
Date: 2000-08-06 02:37:10
Message-ID: 15371.965529430@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> What is ILIKE? afaik it is not in SQL9x, so is there any reason to have
> that rather than the full regular expression case-insensitive operator
> ("~*") we already have?

Just that a lot of people have asked for it, over and over again ...
see the archives ...

regards, tom lane

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