Re: case sensitivity? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: case sensitivity?
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In response to case sensitivity?  (Heine Ferreira <heine.ferreira@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Heine Ferreira <heine.ferreira@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I posted a similar question before. I was told that Postgres is always case
> sensitive.
> I was actually referring to text data not identifiers.
> I mean char and varchar fields.
> I basicically want to avoid using upper in comparisons.
> With some databases you can use a utf8 characterset and a unicode or win1252
> coallation.
> Has anyone tried this?
> Do you know if this will work?

Maybe the citext type would do what you want?

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