Re: Postgres case insensitive searches

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: bhanu udaya <udayabhanu1984(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Postgres case insensitive searches
Date: 2013-06-29 19:08:15
Message-ID: 51CF309F.4010506@commandprompt.com
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On 06/29/2013 09:24 AM, bhanu udaya wrote:

> Upper and Lower functions are not right choice when the table is > 2.5
> million and where we also have heavy insert transactions.

Prove it. Seriously, just run a test case against it. See how it works
for you. Inserts are generally a very inexpensive operation with Postgres.

>
> I doubt, if we can cache the table if there are frequent
> inserts/updates. The good idea would be to get the DB to case
> insenstive configuration like SQL Server. I would go for this solution,
> if postgres supports.

Postgres does not.

And as Jon said, maybe Postgres isn't the right solution for you. That
would be a bummer but we can't be all things to all people.

JD

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