Re: Case insensitive selects?

From: Michael Fork <mfork(at)toledolink(dot)com>
To: David Wheeler <david(at)wheeler(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case insensitive selects?
Date: 2001-02-16 20:11:32
Message-ID: Pine.BSI.4.21.0102161507530.26187-100000@glass.toledolink.com
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This is the function Tom Lane told me to use in < 7.1 (IIRC, this will
cause problems in >= 7.1, so you have to remember to remove from your
dump)

CREATE FUNCTION "upper" (varchar ) RETURNS text AS 'upper' LANGUAGE
'INTERNAL';

Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A+
Network Support - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, David Wheeler wrote:

> Hmmm... I'm trying to create an index,
>
> CREATE INDEX idx_server__host_name ON server(LOWER(host_name));
>
> But it won't create. Here's the error:
>
> ERROR: DefineIndex: function 'upper(varchar)' does not exist
>
> Anyone know what's up with that? The table does have the host_name column
> of type VARCHAR.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>

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