Re: uppercase = lowercase

On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 08:51, jose antonio leo wrote:

> How can I make selects not sensitive uppercase and lowercase characters?
> This is possible modifying something of psql configuration?

I take it you mean that

  SELECT x FROM t WHERE x = 'abc';

should also return rows where x = 'ABC' and x = 'Abc' and so on.

The answer is to make your condition say what it means:

  SELECT x FROM t WHERE lower(x) = 'abc'.

If you do this a lot, you may well want to create an index on lower(x).

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