--On tisdag, mars 30, 2004 16.56.09 -0800 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
wrote:
> Palle,
>
>> But what about ILIKE. It does not take advantage of indices built with
>> lower():
>
> Nope. If you want to use a functional index, you'll need to use the
> function when you call the query. ILIKE is not somehow aware that it
> is equivalent to lower().
Too bad... that was my idea, that it would somehow be aware that it is
equivalent to lower() like. It really is, isn't it? I would have though
they where synonymous. If not, makes ILIKE kind of unusable, at least
unless you're pretty certain the field will never indexed.
/Palle
