Re: LIKE/ESCAPE implementation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: LIKE/ESCAPE implementation
Date
Msg-id 23112.965535010@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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:
> I had thought it would be trivial to do ILIKE, but now I'm not sure how
> to handle the multi-byte case. It isn't sufficient to wrap the
> single-byte comparison arguments with tolower() is it??

I'd be inclined to force both strings to lower case as a whole and
then apply normal LIKE.  Comments anyone?

> I recall people asking for it, but since it is a non-standard
> feature what implementation example should I follow? What alternatives
> are there? Is "check the archives" sufficient to produce a complete
> design discussion?

I do not recall seeing a complete proposal, but wasn't someone just
opining that Oracle has such a feature?  If so, borrowing their spec
seems the thing to do.
        regards, tom lane


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