Re: Accent insensitive search

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Alejandro Javier Pomeraniec <apomeraniec(at)buenosaires(dot)gov(dot)ar>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Accent insensitive search
Date: 2003-07-01 19:42:16
Message-ID: 20030701194215.GC25995@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:11:54PM +0000, Alejandro Javier Pomeraniec wrote:

> Hi ! Does anyone knows how to make accent insensitive searches??

Convert both the pattern and the column to ASCII with to_ascii

> SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE testfield like '%olo%';

SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE to_ascii(testfield) like '%olo%';

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