Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches

Actually, There is a far better way to do that, the exact operator
escapes me right now... but its in the postgres documentation.

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kevin Heflin wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kevin Heflin wrote:
> > Currently I have a select statement like so:
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> > select * from photos where keywords LIKE '%$cat_name%'
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> > The above select statement works, except that it is case sensitive.
> > Is there a way to do this that is not case sensitive?
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> Sorry for the lame question, I found a suggestion on some SQL mailing list
> archive which suggested using:
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> SELECT * from photos were lower(keywords) LIKE lower('%$cat_name%'
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