| From: | Kevin Heflin <kheflin(at)shreve(dot)net> |
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| To: | David Hartwig <daybee(at)bellatlantic(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "PGSQL-General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] select LIKE |
| Date: | 1998-09-04 03:38:14 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.02.9809032236150.11590-100000@mercury.shreve.net |
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On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, David Hartwig wrote:
> > First question: is there a way to do this that is NOT case sensitive?>
> Use the case insensitive regular expression operator.
> select * from rolodex where name ~* '.*$name.*'
Thanks! that solved both my problems.
Is this regular SQL or something more specific to PostgreSQL ?
The SQL book I looked through didn't show anything like this ~*
Kevin
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