Re: Case insensitivity, and option?

From: Mathieu Arnold <mat(at)mat(dot)cc>
To: mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case insensitivity, and option?
Date: 2003-03-12 15:11:01
Message-ID: 431254200.1047485461@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net
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--le 12/03/2003 09:03 -0500, mlw écrivait :
| I was at a client office reviewing some code. They use MSSQL and I
| noticed that:
|
| select * from table where field = 'blah';
| gave the same results as:
| select * from table where field = 'BLah';
|
| I was shocked. (a) because I know a lot of my code could be easier to
| write, and (b) that their code would break on every other database I am
| aware of. Does anyone know about this?
|
| Is it practical/desirable for PostgreSQL to have this as a configuration
| setting?

Well, I quite don't see any difference with writing :
select * from table where lower(field) = lower('BLah');

--
Mathieu Arnold

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