Re: how to ignore accents?

* Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> [300305, 17:42]:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:01:45AM +0200, Ennio-Sr wrote:
> >
> > I'm not an expert, but I'm afraid it's not possible to do that (and I'd
> > be glad if somebody came out saying I'm wrong as I've the same problem).
>
> You could write an unaccent() function that calls translate().
>
>   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-string.html
>
> Here's an (incomplete) example that works in PostgreSQL 8.0.2beta1:
>
>   CREATE FUNCTION unaccent(text) RETURNS text AS $$
>   BEGIN
>       RETURN translate($1, '\342\347\350\351\352\364\373', 'aceeeou');
>   END;
>   $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE STRICT;
>

Thank you, Michael, for correcting my pessimism (and ignorance ... :-).
Is there any chance to have that work with PostgreSQL-7.4.7-2 (the
latest available from Debian/sarge)?
I put those instructions in a .sql file, did:
mydb=> \i unaccent.sql
and got:
psql:unaccent.sql:3: ERROR: syntax error at or near "$" at character 50
psql:unaccent.sql:4: WARNING: there is no transaction in progress
COMMIT
psql:unaccent.sql:5: ERROR: syntax error at or near "$" at character 3

Regards,
    Ennio.

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