Re: pattern matching

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
Cc: Alan Nilsson <anilsson(at)apple(dot)com>, PGSQL <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pattern matching
Date: 2001-01-10 05:14:04
Message-ID: 8705.979103644@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)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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