Re: Using MS Access front-end with PG]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Postgres User wrote:

> Oleg,
>
> This looks like a great module, do you have a pointer to it in English?

unfortunately, no.

>
> If can send this module to me as a compressed file, I'll take the time
> to post it on PgFoundry as a new project that everyone can easily
> access and download.

it can not be a contrib module, since index support for LIKE requires
core patching. Just download
http://v8.1c.ru/overview/postgresql_patches/1c_FULL_81-0.11.patch,
it contains contrib/mchar module.

>
> Paul- if you go with the lower() edits route, be sure to note Joshua's
> coment on the funcional index- one of the best, unknown features in
> PG.
>
> On 4/3/07, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> we have contrib module mchar, which does what you need. We developed it
>> when porting from MS SQL one very popular in Russia accounting software.
>> It's available from http://v8.1c.ru/overview/postgres_patches_notes.htm,
>> in Russian. I don't rememeber about license, though.
>>
>>
>> Oleg
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Paul Lambert wrote:
>>
>> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> You could preface all your queries with something like:
>> >>
>> >> select * from foo where lower(bar) = lower('qualifer');
>> >>
>> >> But that seems a bit silly.
>> >>
>> >> Joshua D. Drake
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I'm trying to avoid having to alter all of my queries, per the OP I've
>> got
>> > several hundred if not thousands of them and if I have to change them all
>> to
>> > put lower() around all the text, that is a lot of time.
>> >
>> > If I have to do that I will, I'm just curious if there was an ability to
>> tell
>> > pg to not be case sensitive when doing lookups.
>> >
>> > Judging by the responses so far, there is not... so I'll get to work :)
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Regards,
>> Oleg
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Regards,
Oleg
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