accent-insensitive

Started by Ricardoover 16 years ago2 messageshackers
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#1Ricardo
rgc.tech@yahoo.com.br

Hello, I would suggest the inclusion an option to create the database
accent-insensitive,
without need to use functions that in some cases it's slow to return the
result.

Example:
select name from table where name ilike 'jo�o'

Return:
jo�o
joao
JOAO
JO�O

Text by: Google translator

Regards,
Rafael

#2Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Ricardo (#1)
Re: accent-insensitive

rgc.tech wrote:

Hello, I would suggest the inclusion an option to create the
database accent-insensitive,
without need to use functions that in some cases it's slow to return
the result.

Example:
select name from table where name ilike 'jo�o'

Yes, this is in the current development branch (8.5) in contrib/unaccent.

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