| From: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> |
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| To: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ILIKE |
| Date: | 2003-02-24 15:13:06 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.44.0302241012380.49095-100000@paprika.michvhf.com |
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Justin Clift wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Tom Lane writes:
> >
> >>My feeling too. Whatever you may think of its usefulness, it's been a
> >>documented feature since 7.1. It's a bit late to reconsider.
> >
> > It's never too late for new users to reconsider. It's also never too late
> > to change your application of performance is not satisfactory.
> >
>
> Well, ILIKE has been a feature for quite some time and the amount of
> negative feedback we've been receiving about upgrade problems makes me
> feel that _removing_ it would be detrimental. (i.e. broken applications)
>
> As an alternative to _removing_ it, would a feasible idea be to
> transparently alias it to something else, say a specific type of regex
> query or something?
Why screw with it for the sake of screwing with it?
Vince.
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