Re: BUG: ILIKE with single-byte encoding - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG: ILIKE with single-byte encoding
Date
Msg-id 24984.1204342099@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG: ILIKE with single-byte encoding  (Rolf Jentsch <RJentsch@electronicpartner.de>)
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Rolf Jentsch <RJentsch@electronicpartner.de> writes:
> With PostgreSQL 8.3.0 the following bug has been introduced with the ILIKE or
> ~~* operator:
> In a database with single-byte encoding as LATIN1 the expression
> SELECT 'aü' ILIKE '%ü';
> returns false.

> For the single-byte case there are some places where a (signed) char
> value is compared to the return value auf tolower() which is an int.

Patch applied, thanks!  It turns out there was a second bug on the very
same line: some machines have problems if the argument of tolower()
isn't explicitly cast to unsigned char ...

            regards, tom lane

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