JORGE MALDONADO wrote:
> I've been reading PostgreSQL documentation and I do not really understand
> the difference between LIKE and SIMILAR operators. Can someone explain?
SIMILAR is a super-set of LIKE syntax. Our docs have:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-SIMILARTO-REGEXP
It is similar to LIKE, except that it interprets the pattern using the
SQL standard's definition of a regular expression. SQL regular
expressions are a curious cross between LIKE notation and common regular
expression notation.
For the super-set, see the bullets below this line:
In addition to these facilities borrowed from LIKE, SIMILAR TO
supports these pattern-matching metacharacters borrowed from POSIX
regular expressions:
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