Re: case insensitive search with greek characters

Giannis Vrentzos wrote:
> I 'm testing postgres 8.0 beta 1 an i have the following problem. I
> have a field with value Γιάννης. If i execute the following query it
> does not returns any rows.
>
> select * from test where descr ilike '%γιαννης%'
>
> if i change the query to
>
> select * from test where descr ilike '%γιάννης%'
>
> everything is fine. As you can see the problem is at char α .

As far as I can see, this is correct, because the pattern in the second
query indeed does match you value whereas the first doesn't.  Did you
expect ilike to be accent-insensitive?  It is not.

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Peter Eisentraut
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