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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: LIKE/ESCAPE implementation
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In response to Re: LIKE/ESCAPE implementation  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.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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