Re: [SQL] Character type name?? How to lower case it?

>
> I have this script:
> SELECT a.attname, t.typname, a.attlen
> FROM pg_class c, pg_attribute a, pg_type t
> WHERE c.relname = 'regis' and a.attname in
> ('var1','var2',var3');
>
> but a.attname is of type name, inwhich text(..) or lower(..)
> do not work with this type and I do not seem to be able to
> convert type name to text....
>
> Can someone help me get around this?
>

You could use case-insensitive regex operator - Your query should looks
like following:
SELECT a.attname, t.typname, a.attlen
FROM pg_class c, pg_attribute a, pg_type t
WHERE c.relname = 'regis' and (a.attname ~*'var1' OR
a.attname~*'var2' OR a.attname~*'var3');
May be this helps
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