Re: Case sensitivity

Hello Scott,

PostgreSQL also supports regular expressions, _VERY_ useful..;-)

~* regular expression, case-insensitive..;-)

Try to get a copy of Bruce's book

Introduction and Concepts
by Bruce Momjian

A sample from the book:
SELECT * FROM friend WHERE firstname ~* '[bc]'

read it online, or just read the docs online...;-)

http://techdocs.postgresql.org

Cheers,

John Clark

p.s. don't change PostgreSQL, change your SQL statements...;-)

Scott Gilbert wrote:
>
> We intend to move from M$ Access to PostgreSQL, however, much of our legacy
> code operates under the assumption that string or text comparisons are case
> insensitive whereas postgres is case sensitive. This issue extends to SQL
> Select statements as well as straight comparison (i.e. in addition to the <,
> > and = operators, the WHERE and IN clauses in SQL statements are also
> issues) so we can't simply modify the function attached to the comparison
> operators. Is there some means of modifying the behaviour of PostgreSQL so
> that it is case insensitive?

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