Antonio Perez wrote: > example > > SELECT name FROM table1 where name > ~* '*Ã*' Actually this regex is flawed. It looks like a common shell "glob" pattern (I don't know the real name of these things), which is a very different and simpler animal from a regex. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support