Re: use of / in ~ vs. ~*

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> > Can anyone explain why I must make / a character class
> > in case-insensitive query in order to match / ?
> 
> What LOCALE are you using?  There was a thread about strange ordering
> rules confusing the LIKE/regexp optimizer recently ...


I think I'm using the default locale (this is just straight install on
Linux from RPM-s)

Is there any way to find out the locale used from within the running
system ?

The most obvious way ( select locale(); ) does not work .

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Hannu