| From: | Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com, scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker) |
| Cc: | scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker), JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com (Jan Wieck), pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian), josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com (Josh Berkus), mail(at)joeconway(dot)com (Joe Conway), pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org (\"\"\"Advocacy PostgreSQL\"\"\"), pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org (PostgreSQL-general) |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread |
| Date: | 2003-06-23 08:01:20 |
| Message-ID: | 200306231001.20653.barwick@gmx.net |
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On Monday 23 June 2003 07:33, nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com wrote:
> > > Personally, if I want case insensitivity, I'll WRITE IT INTO THE CODE,
> > > but I can see how some people might think that 'NOLAN', 'Nolan' and
> > > 'nolan' should be considered as the same data.
> >
> > Oh, you mean like "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field ~* 'nolan';"?
>
> No, I mean as in "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field = 'nolan';"
bad memories ... of website login system ... using MySQL ... returning
several results for a unique login / pw combination ...
To stop this behaviour in MySQL one needs to define CHAR and VARCHAR types
with a "BINARY" attribute, e.g.:
CREATE TABLE tbl (field VARCHAR(24) BINARY)
My fault though for not reading the manual attentively enough ;-).
-> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CHAR.html
Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net
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