| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heine Ferreira <heine(dot)ferreira(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: case sensitivity? |
| Date: | 2011-06-06 20:29:04 |
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Heine Ferreira <heine(dot)ferreira(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I posted a similar question before. I was told that Postgres is always case
> sensitive.
> I was actually referring to text data not identifiers.
> I mean char and varchar fields.
> I basicically want to avoid using upper in comparisons.
> With some databases you can use a utf8 characterset and a unicode or win1252
> coallation.
> Has anyone tried this?
> Do you know if this will work?
Maybe the citext type would do what you want?
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