Re: case insensitive regex clause with some latin1 characters fails

"Ragnar Österlund" <ragoster@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong. I have
> a database encoded with ISO-8859-1, aka LATIN1. When I do something
> like:

> SELECT '�' ~* '�';

> it returns false.

Check the database's locale setting (LC_CTYPE).  It has to be one that
expects LATIN1 encoding.

The current regex code is generally not able to deal with locale-specific
behaviors in UTF8 encoding, but it should work for single-byte encodings
as long as you've got the locale setting right.
        regards, tom lane