Re: ILIKE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ILIKE
Date: 2003-02-24 04:31:22
Message-ID: 26885.1046061082@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> - Some other databases support ILIKE and it makes porting easier.

Which other ones? I checked our archives and found that when we were
discussing adding ILIKE, it was claimed that Oracle had it. But I can't
find anything on the net to verify that claim. I did find that mSQL
(not MySQL) had it, as far back as 1996. Nothing else seems to --- but
Google did provide a lot of hits on pages saying that ILIKE is a mighty
handy Postgres-ism ;-)

> Why this sudden urge to prune away perfectly useful operators?

My feeling too. Whatever you may think of its usefulness, it's been a
documented feature since 7.1. It's a bit late to reconsider.

regards, tom lane

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  • Re: ILIKE at 2003-02-23 21:02:27 from Josh Berkus

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  • Re: ILIKE at 2003-02-24 12:04:46 from Rod Taylor
  • Re: ILIKE at 2003-02-24 12:32:44 from Peter Eisentraut

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