Re: Why Not MySQL?

From: "Sergio A(dot) Kessler" <sak(at)tribctas(dot)gba(dot)gov(dot)ar>
To: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, malcontent(at)msgto(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why Not MySQL?
Date: 2000-05-03 13:15:50
Message-ID: SAK.2000.05.03.kcborjkj@sergio
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> el día Wed, 03 May 2000
04:12:37 +0000, escribió:

>> > If I can't get my questions answered about case sensitivity issues here
>> > (no help so far) I will most likely to use it myself.
>
>My recollection is that it involved needing non-standard
>case-insensitive LIKE comparisons to get transparent behavior with an
>existing M$ Access app. So far, we were too polite to ask why one is
>working so hard to maintain compatibility with a non-standard
>interface, rather than writing the app to be portable. But I'll ask
>now. Tim?

if tim want a LIKE to be done case-insensitive, why not doing:

select foo from table1 where upper(foo) like "%BAR%" ??

sergio

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