Re: case insensitive like searches - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kenneth Marshall
Subject Re: case insensitive like searches
Date
Msg-id 20090415130541.GI18845@it.is.rice.edu
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In response to case insensitive like searches  (Mark Dueck <mark@dueck.bz>)
List pgsql-admin
In 8.4 there is a citext contrib module that should do the
trick.

Cheers,
Ken

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:59:11AM -0600, Mark Dueck wrote:
> Is there a way to make Postgres do case insensitive like searches?  I
> know you can use ilike instead, but I don't have control of the
> software.  Is there a plan to enable this in the future?
>
> Can I recompile Postgres to make like searches do the same as ilike, or
> is it easier to create a new character encoding that will be case
> insensitive?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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