Re: Using MS Access front-end with PG]

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Edward Macnaghten <eddy(at)edlsystems(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Using MS Access front-end with PG]
Date: 2007-04-04 03:22:31
Message-ID: 461319F7.2070306@commandprompt.com
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Edward Macnaghten 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.
>>
>>
> And also it would prevent the optimizer from using any indexes on
> "bar". Not a good idea.

You could use a functional index to solve that.

CREATE INDEX lower_bar_idx on foo(lower(bar));

>
> Eddy
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