Re: Case Sensitive "WHERE" Clauses?

From: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Chris <csmith(at)squiz(dot)net>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case Sensitive "WHERE" Clauses?
Date: 2002-09-26 23:33:35
Message-ID: 200209270133.35024.barwick@gmx.net
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On Friday 27 September 2002 01:14, Chris wrote:
> >On Thursday 26 September 2002 19:54, Jordan Reiter wrote:
> > > Are string comparisons in postgresql case sensitive?
> >
> >Yes, unless you specify otherwise.
> >
> >Are you sure you are using the right database? I can
> >reproduce similar results, but only like this:
>
> You're using MySQL in these examples .. not Postgres :)

Full points for paying attention ;-)

This, erm, characteristic of the former caused me a lot of grief once...

Anyone know what the ANSI standard is? I don`t recall any other
database apart from MySQL which default to case-insensitive
CHAR or VARCHAR columns.

Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net

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