Re: [SQL] Case insensitive searchs

The problem is that I don't know all of the city names.

I was trying to do a:

select distinct lower(city) from mytable

This yeild a combo of all of one each of all cities that have different
case and returns them in lowercase.

Thanks

Andy

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Gregory W Burnham wrote:

> I'm sure the syntax here is wrong, and I'm sure I'll be
> corrected : )
>
> But can't you do something like this:
>
> select distict from the_table where upper(city_name) = upper("san antonio");
>
> Gregory W Burnham
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andy Lewis <alewis(at)themecca(dot)net>
> To: <pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 11:14 AM
> Subject: [SQL] Case insensitive searchs
>
>
> > I have a table that has city names in it. Some of the cities have a number
> > of different cases. For instance I may have:
> >
> > San Antonio
> > san antonio
> > San antonio
> > SAN ANTONIO
> >
> > My question is how can I do a distinct search for all cities and only get
> > one of each city?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>