Re: LIKE/ESCAPE implementation

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>> I'd be inclined to force both strings to lower case as a whole and
>> then apply normal LIKE.  Comments anyone?

> OK. "Both strings to lower case as a whole" doesn't seem to be something
> which is multibyte-enabled in our code. Am I just missing seeing some
> features?

Not sure that it matters for multibyte, but for sure LOCALE ought to
make a difference.  Consider German esstet (sp?) --- that beta-looking
symbol that lowercases to "ss".  Do we do this correctly?

			regards, tom lane