From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | jose antonio leo <jaleo8(at)storelandia(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: uppercase = lowercase |
Date: | 2003-02-14 10:20:01 |
Message-ID: | 1045218001.10914.122.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk |
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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:51, jose antonio leo wrote:
> How can I make selects not sensitive uppercase and lowercase characters?
> This is possible modifying something of psql configuration?
I take it you mean that
SELECT x FROM t WHERE x = 'abc';
should also return rows where x = 'ABC' and x = 'Abc' and so on.
The answer is to make your condition say what it means:
SELECT x FROM t WHERE lower(x) = 'abc'.
If you do this a lot, you may well want to create an index on lower(x).
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