Re: Case Sensitive "WHERE" Clauses?

> > > > Are string comparisons in postgresql case sensitive?
>> >
>> >Yes, unless you specify otherwise.
>> >
>> >Are you sure you are using the right database? I can
>> >reproduce similar results, but only like this:
>>
>> You're using MySQL in these examples .. not Postgres :)
>
>Full points for paying attention ;-)
>
>This, erm, characteristic of the former caused me a lot of grief once...
>
>Anyone know what the ANSI standard is? I don`t recall any other
>database apart from MySQL which default to case-insensitive
>CHAR or VARCHAR columns.

Microsoft Products (SQL Server, Access) are case-insensitive.

I find it hard to understand why it's advantageous that column names are NOT case sensitive, while field content is. You have a *lot* more control over the database columns than you do over the content that goes into the fields. In my opinion, allowing someone to refer to a column as first_name, First_Name, or FIRST_NAME just encourages bad programming.
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