Re: Mixed case text searches - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: Mixed case text searches
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Msg-id AANLkTin2-rcu69lgi9qjrleCmUYAACg-SO_dPyPpbFku@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Mixed case text searches  (Chris Campbell <ccampbell@cascadeds.com>)
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On 15 June 2010 19:41, Chris Campbell <ccampbell@cascadeds.com> wrote:

(Pg 8.4)

Well I gave it a shot and for whatever reason it doesn’t work for me.  The table got created with accountname field of type citext.  If I run a general select query the field correctly shows that it’s of type citext.  However, when I add my where clause accountname like ‘a%’, it returns no records.  If I cap it (‘A%’) then I get the expected results.  I’m using a BTree index on the field.  Don’t know if that makes a difference or not.  Has anyone gotten this citext type to work?  Is there an undocumented trick to getting it to work?  Thanks

 

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I'm not sure why that's not working for you.  I just tried it on 8.4.4 and was fine for me:

test=# create table test_table(
id serial,
stuff citext);
NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test_table_id_seq" for serial column "test_table.id"
CREATE TABLE

test=# insert into test_table (stuff) values ('animal'),('Alpha'),('aquarium'),('Arctic');
INSERT 0 4

test=# select * from test_table where stuff like 'a%';
 id |  stuff   
----+----------
  1 | animal
  2 | Alpha
  3 | aquarium
  4 | Arctic
(4 rows)

test=# select * from test_table where stuff like 'A%';
 id |  stuff   
----+----------
  1 | animal
  2 | Alpha
  3 | aquarium
  4 | Arctic
(4 rows)

Are you sure you're referring to the correct field in your where clause?

Regards

Thom 

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