Re: Accent insensitive search?

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: cifroes <cifroes(at)netcabo(dot)pt>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Accent insensitive search?
Date: 2009-03-18 18:13:30
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0903182111160.31919@sn.sai.msu.ru
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, cifroes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a DB in utf-8 and postgres 8.3.x.
>
> How can I do an accent insensitive search (like ...) ?

Take a look on text search capability and
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/unaccent
We have patches for CVS HEAD, but unfortunately they will likely
go to the 8.5 release

Regards,
Oleg
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