> > How is SIMILAR TO different from ~ ?
> >From the part of Thomas's email you snipped:
> Implement SQL99 SIMILAR TO as a synonym for our existing operator "~".
> So the answer is "not at all"
Right. I'm not certain about the regex syntax defined by SQL99; I used
the syntax that we already have enabled and it looks like we have a
couple of other variants available if we need them. If someone wants to
research the *actual* syntax specified by SQL99 that would be good...
- Thomas