Thread: Case sensitivity

Case sensitivity

From
"Dario Ottaviano"
Date:
I use postgres on a window server (IIS 5.1)
Is there anybody that knows if  is possible to make postgres  no case
sensitive in the manipulating data into tables/views?

Thank you.
D.Ottaviano




Re: Case sensitivity

From
Oliver Elphick
Date:
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 09:43, Dario Ottaviano wrote:
> I use postgres on a window server (IIS 5.1)
> Is there anybody that knows if  is possible to make postgres  no case
> sensitive in the manipulating data into tables/views?

You can use upper() or lower() to transform all data to one form.  In
comparing data you can use ILIKE
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