| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Carmen Wai" <wai_carmen(at)hotmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] Case in-sensitive |
| Date: | 2002-07-25 02:27:42 |
| Message-ID: | 200207241927.42145.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Chris,
> > Can I config the Postgresql so that it can match case
> > in-sensitive pattern
> > automatically? i.e. I don't need to explicit convert the pattern to lower
> > case like this: .....WHERE lower(textfield) LIKE lower(pattern)
>
> All you need to do is this:
>
> ......WHERE textfield ILIKE pattern
Though, keep in mind, lower(textfield) can be indexed, but ILIKE textfield
cannot.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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