Re: [SQL] Case in-sensitive searches

Jose' Soares Da Silva wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 May 1998, Marin D wrote:
>
> >
> > upper()/lower() are defined only for text fields. How to deal with charN ?
> >
> version 6.3:
>
> prova=> create table a ( var varchar(20), ch char(30));
> CREATE
> prova=> insert into a values ('nome','pippo');
> INSERT 76394 1
> prova=> select * from a;
> var |ch
> ----+------------------------------
> nome|pippo
> (1 row)
>
> prova=> select upper(var), upper(ch) from a;
> upper|upper
> -----+------------------------------
> NOME |PIPPO
> (1 row)
>                                               Jose'


From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/user/c05.htm :

Operator  Description                        Usage

~*        Match (regex), case insensitive    'thomas' ~* '*.Thomas*.'


Ex:

Select * From table_membres where nom ~* '.*myname.*';


-Tony

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