Mandi! paul POULAIN In chel di` si favelave...
i've bad news for you Marco...
Sure?!
we have decided recently to go ... to a deepest mySQL dependency. mySQL has a feature that doesn't exist in ANSI-SQL92 : full-text indexing.
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-... No, but pg, as often in GNU programs, have regexp. ;) I think it is not the case to fight against one or other DBMS, simply wrote down a correct relational database schema in normal form, and put inside as standard as possible SQL instructions, for the rest using specialized instructions case()ing on the DBMS type. As suggested. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711 fax +39-0434-842797 Difendiamo PeaceLink! Campagna di solidarietà per la tutela legale di una voce scomoda. http://www.peacelink.it/emergenza/