Re: Case sensitive order by

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:15:41PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 23:49:12 +0530,
> mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com wrote:
> >
> > > I want to do case sensitve sorting on a varchar field.
> >
> > the default ordering is case sensitive , what makes u feel
> > otherwise , could u give some examples?
>
> That depends on the locale. In US_EN ordering is not case sensitive.
> (Unless to strings are the same excepting their case.)

Stupid question: would US_EN also result in where clauses being
case-insensitive? I'd like that behavior, but am currently doing it
using where lower(blah) = lower('search phrase')
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