On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Justin Clift wrote: > 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?
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