[GENERAL] Question about weird construct

2008-11-11 Thread Diego Manilla Suárez
Hi. I found this somewhere: select a from b order by a using ~<~ I've been searching the docs but I found nothing about this weird ~<~ comparator. Not in comparison operators, String functions and operators, nor the order by clause. Maybe it has something to do with regular expressions, but s

[GENERAL] Accent insensitive search

2007-06-21 Thread Diego Manilla Suárez
Hi. I have a few databases created with UNICODE encoding, and I would like to be able to search with accent insensitivity. There's something in Oracle (NLS_COMP, NLS_SORT) and SQL Server (don't remember) to do this, but I found nothing in PostgreSQL, just the 'to_ascii' function, which AFAIK, d

[GENERAL] Database lost after reboot

2006-04-06 Thread Diego Manilla Suárez
Hi. I have PostgreSQL 7.4.8 installed on a SuSE Enterprise Server 9. When I create a database, everything works fine until I restart the computer. When I do that, and I try to connect to the database, I get the following message; psql: FATAL: database "mydb" does not exist DETAIL: The databa