Re: Disabling case sensitivity

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: igor <linux_211(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disabling case sensitivity
Date: 2002-07-16 16:32:08
Message-ID: 20020716092823.L50015-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On 15 Jul 2002, igor wrote:

> > Being able to ignore the difference strictly in terms of case
> > (appropriately defined by locale) is what things like ILIKE are for.
> > But "=" means "the same", not "sort of the same".
> >
> In case-insensitive world yes.
>
>
> > If your application can't be fixed, and relies entirely on some
> > (non-)feature of some other system, well, then, you have to use that
> > other system. Them's the breaks.
> >
>
> Or wait until (if so) there will be possibility in POstgreSQL server
> to make smething like case-insensitive searches.

If you have a locale where those characters are considered the same,
presumably you'd get case-insensitive searches if the database was made in
that locale. Barring that, you have source, you could go in and muck with
the appropriate functions.

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