Thread: case senesitive

And is it possible to make a query containing an ORDER BY that is not case
sensitive ?

Thanks
Mari-Mai


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 2:58 AM
To: HENAFF Mari-mai FTRD/DMI/LAN
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] accent marks


HENAFF Mari-mai FTRD/DMI/LAN writes:

> Is it possible to configure PostgreSQL, so that it is not accent mark
> sensitive when making conditions upon strings on the queries ?

No, you'll have to do that yourself. A simple tr 'âàáéÿ' 'aaaey' etc.
could possibly do on the client side.

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Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
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HENAFF Mari-mai FTRD/DMI/LAN writes:

> And is it possible to make a query containing an ORDER BY that is not case
> sensitive ?

Option 1:

SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY upper(field);

Option 2:

Build with --enable-locale. Most locales sort a, A, b, B, etc.


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Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
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