From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: desoft@freemail.gr
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: select (\' \' ~* \' \')=true while select (\' \' ilike \' \')
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:50:44 -0500
Message-ID: <21728.1268326244@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b86bdeb03d3c8.17572985@freemail.gr>
References: <4b86bdeb03d3c8.17572985@freemail.gr>
desoft@freemail.gr writes:
> encoding is set correctly.
To what?
> While ilike works correctly ~* doesn't why ?
~* is known to have issues in multibyte encodings (eg UTF8).
Fixing this is on the TODO list, but nobody's thought of a
reasonably clean fix yet.
There is a partial solution in place for 9.0 --- it should work for
UTF8, though not for other multibyte encodings. If you're feeling
desperate you could try backpatching this commit:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20091201210024.B1393753FB7@cvs.postgresql.org
However the path of least resistance might be to use a single-byte
encoding in your database, such as LATIN1.
regards, tom lane
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