> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>> AFAICS, getting SIMILAR TO to operate per spec would require adding some
>> sort of translation function that converts the spec-style pattern into
>> a Posix pattern that our regex match engine would handle.
I did something about this. The translation fu
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Who implemented SIMILAR TO in the first place?
>
> Thomas. He put in the syntax, but as it stands it's simply syntactic
> sugar for ~ --- that is, our Posix-compatible regex match operator.
> Since the spec
