Re: Case Insensitive

From: Sameer Kumar <sameer(dot)kumar(at)ashnik(dot)com>
To: Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>
Cc: PG mailing List <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Case Insensitive
Date: 2019-03-28 08:37:10
Message-ID: CADp-Sm5Yh=8wh9+dw49GW7vHHm9-4A_Qy42UzUaZVsVTQVTALQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 28 Mar, 2019, 4:33 PM Steve Atkins, <steve(at)blighty(dot)com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Mar 28, 2019, at 8:29 AM, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On 3/28/19 3:23 AM, Sameer Kumar wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> You can write a query with upper function:
> >>
> >> select * from emp where upper(ename)=upper('aaa');
> >
> > That's a guaranteed table scan.
>
> Unless you have an index on upper(ename).
>

Yup, with this or overloading "=", one can create an expression based index
and benefit from it.

> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
>

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