Re: full text search and ILIKE type clauses.

From: Tim Uckun <timuckun(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: mgould(at)isstrucksoftware(dot)net
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: full text search and ILIKE type clauses.
Date: 2012-03-12 20:20:31
Message-ID: CAGuHJrMO_Yyz225PpxDW9ibVUxP9rsuOyjs9dAenHbSocY5Y5A@mail.gmail.com
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>
> We made most of our text, varchar columns citext data types so that we
> could do case insensitive searches.  Is this going to negate most of the
> index searches?  It appeared to our DBA that it would be easier to use
> citext data type then need to use ILIKE instead?
>

In the same vein...

Does postgres have case insensitive collations yet? Now that 9.1
supports column level collations that would be a really great option
for case insensitive queries.

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