Re: pattern matching - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pattern matching
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Msg-id 8705.979103644@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pattern matching  ("Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>)
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"Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net> writes:
> The case-insensitive regexp operator is ~*, and it does work in
> PostgreSQL.  There is no ~~* or ILIKE,

Both are new for 7.1, I believe.

> but you can do LIKE UPPER('*text*')
> to achieve the same thing.

Good workaround for older versions.

Alan appears to have been reading the development docs rather than
the release-version docs ...

            regards, tom lane

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