Thread: Re: [SQL] How to Make Case InSensitive???
thank you for this tip! don't know what the ^ or the $ is used for but the ~* and the \do helped me out a great deal. No info on this in any documentation. Charles ---David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com> wrote: > > > > Marcio Macedo wrote: > > > Hey... > > > > How does this " ~* " operator works ?!?!?! > > > > David Hartwig wrote: > > > > > > > > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE upper(NAME) = 'INDIA' > > > or > > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE NAME ~* '^india$' > > > > > I don't use it myself, but it is a case insensitive regular expression > match operator. "~' is the case sensitive operator. Do "\do" in > psql to see all the operators. > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Hello Barracuda,
mercoledì, 16 settembre 98, you wrote:
B> thank you for this tip! don't know what the ^ or the $ is used for
regular expression operators ^ stand for first character and $ stand
for last character:
~* '^india$'
matches India
india
INDIA
but not Indiana
New India
>>
B> but the ~* and the \do helped me out a great deal. No info on this in
B> any documentation.
Take a look at PostgreSQL User's Guide, Chapter 5, there's some
information about PostgreSQL operators.
B> Charles
B> ---David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcio Macedo wrote:
>>
>> > Hey...
>> >
>> > How does this " ~* " operator works ?!?!?!
>> >
>> > David Hartwig wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE upper(NAME) = 'INDIA'
>> > > or
>> > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE NAME ~* '^india$'
>>
>> >
>>
>> I don't use it myself, but it is a case insensitive regular expression
>> match operator. "~' is the case sensitive operator. Do "\do" in
>> psql to see all the operators.
>>
>>
>>
B> _________________________________________________________
B> DO YOU YAHOO!?
B> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Jose'
At 16:14 +0200 on 16/9/98, Sferacarta Software wrote: > regular expression operators ^ stand for first character and $ stand > for last character: > > ~* '^india$' > > matches India > india > INDIA > > but not Indiana > New India Another way to think of it is like this: 'india' is eqivalent to "contains 'india'" '^india' is eqivalent to "starts with 'india'" 'india$' is eqivalent to "ends with 'india'" '^india$' is eqivalent to "is exactly 'india'" Herouth -- Herouth Maoz, Internet developer. Open University of Israel - Telem project http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
> thank you for this tip! don't know what the ^ or the $ is used for > but the ~* and the \do helped me out a great deal. No info on this in > any documentation. > > Charles Actually, the FAQ mentions it, the psql \? command, and psql manual page mention it. Is there somewhere else we should mention it? -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 http://www.op.net/~candle | (610) 353-9879(w) + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 853-3000(h) + Christ can be your backup. |
Hello Barracuda,
mercoledì, 16 settembre 98, you wrote:
B> thank you for this tip! don't know what the ^ or the $ is used for
regular expression operators ^ stand for first character and $ stand
for last character:
~* '^india$'
matches India
india
INDIA
but not Indiana
New India
>>
B> but the ~* and the \do helped me out a great deal. No info on this in
B> any documentation.
Take a look at PostgreSQL User's Guide, Chapter 5, there's some
information about PostgreSQL operators.
B> Charles
B> ---David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcio Macedo wrote:
>>
>> > Hey...
>> >
>> > How does this " ~* " operator works ?!?!?!
>> >
>> > David Hartwig wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE upper(NAME) = 'INDIA'
>> > > or
>> > > SELECT * FROM series WHERE NAME ~* '^india$'
>>
>> >
>>
>> I don't use it myself, but it is a case insensitive regular expression
>> match operator. "~' is the case sensitive operator. Do "\do" in
>> psql to see all the operators.
>>
>>
>>
B> _________________________________________________________
B> DO YOU YAHOO!?
B> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Jose'
At 16:14 +0200 on 16/9/98, Sferacarta Software wrote: > regular expression operators ^ stand for first character and $ stand > for last character: > > ~* '^india$' > > matches India > india > INDIA > > but not Indiana > New India Another way to think of it is like this: 'india' is eqivalent to "contains 'india'" '^india' is eqivalent to "starts with 'india'" 'india$' is eqivalent to "ends with 'india'" '^india$' is eqivalent to "is exactly 'india'" Herouth -- Herouth Maoz, Internet developer. Open University of Israel - Telem project http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
I working with a table of about 70'000 records and I made 2 tests about
the optimisation of ~* :
With ~* :
----------
% time -p psql mayer98 -c "select * from artistes where nom ~* 'picasso';"
ref|nom |nom_court |type|nationalite
-----+----------------------------+-------------+----+-----------
76160|PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973 |PICASSO | 0|E
76161|PICASSO Loulou, *1958 |PICASSOLoulou| 0|F
76162|(A) PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973|PICASSOPablo | 6|E
(3 rows)
real 11.52 *
user 0.02
sys 0.01
With upper(...) and like upper(%...%)
--------------------------------------
% time -p psql mayer98 -c "select * from artistes where upper(nom) like
upper('%PICASSO%');"
ref|nom |nom_court |type|nationalite
-----+----------------------------+-------------+----+-----------
76160|PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973 |PICASSO | 0|E
76161|PICASSO Loulou, *1958 |PICASSOLoulou| 0|F
76162|(A) PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973|PICASSOPablo | 6|E
(3 rows)
real 4.44 *
user 0.03
sys 0.00
Relsult: it seem to be 2.6 time more optimised to use upper(...) like
upper('%...%') ???
JK
Herouth Maoz wrote:
> At 16:14 +0200 on 16/9/98, Sferacarta Software wrote:
>
> > regular expression operators ^ stand for first character and $ stand
> > for last character:
> >
> > ~* '^india$'
> >
> > matches India
> > india
> > INDIA
> >
> > but not Indiana
> > New India
>
> Another way to think of it is like this:
>
> 'india' is eqivalent to "contains 'india'"
> '^india' is eqivalent to "starts with 'india'"
> 'india$' is eqivalent to "ends with 'india'"
> '^india$' is eqivalent to "is exactly 'india'"
>
> Herouth
>
> --
> Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
> Open University of Israel - Telem project
> http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
According to Bruce Momjian:
>
> > thank you for this tip! don't know what the ^ or the $ is used for
> > but the ~* and the \do helped me out a great deal. No info on this in
> > any documentation.
> >
> > Charles
>
> Actually, the FAQ mentions it, the psql \? command, and psql manual page
> mention it. Is there somewhere else we should mention it?
Is it documented which things work with which data types (text vs. varchar)?
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
> I working with a table of about 70'000 records and I made 2 tests about
> the optimisation of ~* :
>
> With ~* :
> ----------
> % time -p psql mayer98 -c "select * from artistes where nom ~* 'picasso';"
>
> ref|nom |nom_court |type|nationalite
> -----+----------------------------+-------------+----+-----------
> 76160|PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973 |PICASSO | 0|E
> 76161|PICASSO Loulou, *1958 |PICASSOLoulou| 0|F
> 76162|(A) PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973|PICASSOPablo | 6|E
> (3 rows)
>
> real 11.52 *
> user 0.02
> sys 0.01
>
> With upper(...) and like upper(%...%)
> --------------------------------------
> % time -p psql mayer98 -c "select * from artistes where upper(nom) like
> upper('%PICASSO%');"
> ref|nom |nom_court |type|nationalite
> -----+----------------------------+-------------+----+-----------
> 76160|PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973 |PICASSO | 0|E
> 76161|PICASSO Loulou, *1958 |PICASSOLoulou| 0|F
> 76162|(A) PICASSO Pablo, 1881-1973|PICASSOPablo | 6|E
> (3 rows)
>
> real 4.44 *
> user 0.03
> sys 0.00
>
> Relsult: it seem to be 2.6 time more optimised to use upper(...) like
> upper('%...%') ???
>
> JK
>
This is interesting. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?
We do need a faster regular expression library, and I am hoping the
original author, Henry Spencer, will complete the rewrite he is doing
soon.
--
Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
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+ If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 853-3000(h)
+ Christ can be your backup. |