Re: Accent insensitive search?

On 2009-03-18, cifroes <cifroes@netcabo.pt> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have a DB in utf-8 and postgres 8.3.x.=20
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> How can I do an accent insensitive search (like ...) ?

use a posix regular expression that matches the string you want:

select * from foo where colname ~ '^[CcĆćĈĉĊċČč][ĀāĂ㥹Aa][Pp][ŌōŎŏŐő]$';

you could write a function to do the translation.