Re: Matching against a field case in-sensitive.

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Matching against a field case in-sensitive.
Date: 2009-03-02 14:58:14
Message-ID: 20090302145814.GB4768@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to James Dooley :
> Hi,
>
> Since PostgreSQL is by default case sensitive, I would like to know if it is
> possible to do a search or somehow set the column in a relation to be case
> insensitive (on search at least).
>
> I would however like to store it case sensitive so I can display it as it was
> stored.

test=# select * from foo where t = 'foo';
i | t
---+-----
1 | foo
(1 row)

test=*# select * from foo where lower(t) = lower('foo');
i | t
---+-----
1 | foo
2 | FOO
(2 rows)

You can also create an index based on lower() for such queries.

Andreas
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