Re: [SQL] case-insensitive lookups...

From: Marc Howard Zuckman <marc(at)fallon(dot)classyad(dot)com>
To: Lorenzo Huerta <lorenzo(at)nmsu(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] case-insensitive lookups...
Date: 1998-07-13 23:56:27
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.00.9807131954180.1933-100000@fallon.classyad.com
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Lorenzo Huerta wrote:

>
> is there a way to do selects /etc on fields without regard to upper/lower
> case of the data in the fields?

select * from tablename where attribute ~* 'stringvalue' ;
^^ the case insensitive regex
equality operator.

Marc Zuckman
marc(at)fallon(dot)classyad(dot)com

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