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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