Re: Using MS Access front-end with PG]

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Paul Lambert <paul(dot)lambert(at)autoledgers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Using MS Access front-end with PG]
Date: 2007-04-04 04:28:36
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0704040750420.12152@sn.sai.msu.ru
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Paul,

we have contrib module mchar, which does what you need. We developed it
when porting from MS SQL one very popular in Russia accounting software.
It's available from http://v8.1c.ru/overview/postgres_patches_notes.htm,
in Russian. I don't rememeber about license, though.

Oleg

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Paul Lambert wrote:

> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>> You could preface all your queries with something like:
>>
>> select * from foo where lower(bar) = lower('qualifer');
>>
>> But that seems a bit silly.
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>
>>
>
> I'm trying to avoid having to alter all of my queries, per the OP I've got
> several hundred if not thousands of them and if I have to change them all to
> put lower() around all the text, that is a lot of time.
>
> If I have to do that I will, I'm just curious if there was an ability to tell
> pg to not be case sensitive when doing lookups.
>
> Judging by the responses so far, there is not... so I'll get to work :)
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
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