Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com> writes:
> b) is there a better and/or faster way of implementing this? I
> don't want searches to bog down (at least too badly) as a result of
> this.
Use to_ascii(text),
masm=# select to_ascii('áéíóú');to_ascii
----------aeiou
(1 row)
Regards,
Manuel.