Re: collation

Thank for the tips, Oliver and Paul! I take it then that there are no
means of constructing collation tables (like I do in FrontBase), that
allow me to control which characters are equalled with which characters
in searches - this is a part of SQL92, I believe.

Jens

On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 13:54 Europe/Copenhagen, Oliver Elphick
wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 07:13, Jens Østergaard Petersen wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have been looking all around, but I don't see any support for
>> collation in pgsql - are there other ways of performing
>> cases-insensitive searches?
>
> You can use ILIKE or you can use a regular expression with the ~*
> operator.
>
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