Re: [GENERAL] Disabling case sensitivity

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(at)nic(dot)fr>
To: igor <linux_211(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Disabling case sensitivity
Date: 2002-07-10 12:51:19
Message-ID: 20020710125119.GA15584@nic.fr
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:11:38PM -0700,
igor <linux_211(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote
a message of 12 lines which said:

> I would like to know if there is some way how to disable case
> sensitivity in PostgreSQL server.

Always remember that case-INsensitivity is properly defined only for
US-ASCII. Many PostgreSQL users store data in other scripts like
Latin-1.

> Exactly like in MS SQL server.

What does MS SQL server does with Unicode? Does it map 'Stéphane' to
'STEPHANE'?

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