Re: Case Sensitive "WHERE" Clauses?

From: Kevin Houle <kevin(at)houle(dot)org>
To: Jordan Reiter <jordan(at)breezing(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Case Sensitive "WHERE" Clauses?
Date: 2002-09-28 03:38:29
Message-ID: 3D952435.4050207@houle.org
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Jordan Reiter wrote:
> Are string comparisons in postgresql case sensitive?
>
> I keep on having this response:
>
> SELECT *
> FROM People
> WHERE first_name='jordan'
>
> Result: 0 records
>
> SELECT *
> FROM People
> WHERE first_name='Jordan'
>
> Result: 1 record

It's case-sensitive. You can do this:

SELECT *
FROM People
WHERE lower(first_name) = 'jordon'

Kevin

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