> Write a function that strips out the characters you want to
> ignore
> (returning the rest of the given string) and then create an
> index on
> that function.
>
Hmm, thanks for the suggesgion. Although the problem seems to have been that the locale I was using was ignoring those
characterswhen they should have been taken into account, so taking them out wouldn't have helped.
It's all academic now anyway, I dumped the databases on all the servers, re-initdb'd, reloaded the data and fudged
slonyback in.