Jeremy Drake <pgsql@jdrake.com> writes:
> I want to ask, should I break with following substring's precedent, and
> put the pattern first (as most people probably would expect), or should I
> break with perl's precedent and put the pattern second (to behave like
> substring)?
All of SQL's pattern match operators have the pattern on the right, so
my advice is to stick with that and try not to think about Perl ;-)
regards, tom lane
