Re: case insensitive sorting & searching in oracle 10g - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
Subject Re: case insensitive sorting & searching in oracle 10g
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In response to case insensitive sorting & searching in oracle 10g  (David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>)
Responses Re: case insensitive sorting & searching in oracle 10g  (David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>)
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    create a functional index on lower case value of your column.
    ORDER BY lower case value of your column.


> in oracle 10g, you can issue:
>
>   ALTER SESSION SET NLS_COMP = ansi;
>   ALTER SESSION SET NLS_SORT = binary_ci;
>
> do you think this is an elegant solution for case insensitive sorting &
> searching? is there interest in seeing this in postgres?
>



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