Re: Case insensitive selects? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Wheeler
Subject Re: Case insensitive selects?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0102150826080.16929-100000@theory
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In response to Re: Case insensitive selects?  (Michael Fork <mfork@toledolink.com>)
Responses Re: Case insensitive selects?
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Michael Fork wrote:

> Indexes *can* and *will* be used if you create the appropiate
> functional indexes, i.e:
>
> CREATE INDEX idx_table_field_upper ON table(upper(field));
>
> SELECT field FROM table WHERE upper(field) LIKE upper('some string');

Hmmm...I'd hate to have two indexes on every field I query like this, one
case-senstive, one case-insensitve (like the one you create here). Is
there a configuration option or something that will tell pgsql to do
case-insensitive comparisons (kinda like MS SQL Server has)? That could
save us on indexing overhead, since we want all of our WHERE comparisons
to be case-insensitive, anyway.

I should also not that we're also using --with-multibyte and having all of
our databases use Unicode exclusively.

Thanks!

David


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