Or use the regular expression syntax for case insensitive pattern matching
e.g. SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE foo *= 'aBc';
For more info, see:
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/operators2123.htm
Hope that helps,
Ol.
select * from myTable where upper(myField) like 'TEST';
Upper will change the fields to upper case for testing purposes.
Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
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From: "Yann Ramin" <atrus@atrustrivalie.eu.org>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:05 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] Case insensitive LIKE queries
> Hello,
>
> What would be the most effective way of preforming a case-insensitive
LIKE
> query? I've notived that MySQL somehow ALWAYS does it case insensitive,
> which is not very smart, but I should expect this feature to exist
without
> reasonable pain on the programmer;s end?
>
> Yann
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