Re: ILIKE

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
> 
>>My feeling too.  Whatever you may think of its usefulness, it's been a
>>documented feature since 7.1.  It's a bit late to reconsider.
> 
> It's never too late for new users to reconsider.  It's also never too late
> to change your application of performance is not satisfactory.
> 

Well, ILIKE has been a feature for quite some time and the amount of 
negative feedback we've been receiving about upgrade problems makes me 
feel that _removing_ it would be detrimental.  (i.e. broken applications)

As an alternative to _removing_ it, would a feasible idea be to 
transparently alias it to something else, say a specific type of regex 
query or something?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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