> Write a function that strips out the characters you want to > ignore > (returning the rest of the given string) and then create an > index on > that function. > Hmm, thanks for the suggesgion. Although the problem seems to have been that the locale I was using was ignoring those characters when they should have been taken into account, so taking them out wouldn't have helped. It's all academic now anyway, I dumped the databases on all the servers, re-initdb'd, reloaded the data and fudged slony back in.