Spanner PostgreSQL dialect adds ILIKE and NOT ILIKE

UpdateSep 3, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

PostgreSQL-dialect databases in Spanner now support the ILIKE and NOT ILIKE operators and the pg.ilike and pg.not_ilike functions for case-insensitive pattern matching.

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