Re: ILIKE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ILIKE
Date: 2003-02-24 17:30:44
Message-ID: 4328.1046107844@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Hey, I don't want to take your ILIKE away. But at the time it was added
> the claim was that it was for compatibility and now we learn that that was
> wrong. That is something to make people aware of, for example in the
> documentation.

It already does say

: The keyword ILIKE can be used instead of LIKE to make the match case
: insensitive according to the active locale. This is not in the SQL
: standard but is a PostgreSQL extension.

What else would you want to say?

regards, tom lane

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  • Re: ILIKE at 2003-02-24 17:02:02 from Peter Eisentraut

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