Re: Case sensitive searches

>...
> if (upper('001234') == lower('001234'))
> SELECT * FROM table
> WHERE id = '001234';
> else
> SELECT * FROM table
> WHERE upper(id) = '001234';
>
>Even without the index I guess that would have saved it a lot of work.

I'm no expert, but I can't image this will be easy, because the optimizer
does not know any relation between lower() and upper().
I think an index on upper(id) (create index idxname on table(upper(id)))
should work well.

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