Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeremiah Davis
Subject Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches
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Msg-id Pine.3.89.9901130925.A25237-0100000@onramp.freeway.net
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches  (Kevin Heflin <kheflin@shreve.net>)
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Actually, There is a far better way to do that, the exact operator
escapes me right now... but its in the postgres documentation.

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kevin Heflin wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Kevin Heflin wrote:
> > Currently I have a select statement like so:
> >
> > select * from photos where keywords LIKE '%$cat_name%'
> >
> > The above select statement works, except that it is case sensitive.
> > Is there a way to do this that is not case sensitive?
>
>
> Sorry for the lame question, I found a suggestion on some SQL mailing list
> archive which suggested using:
>
> SELECT * from photos were lower(keywords) LIKE lower('%$cat_name%'
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