Re: SELECT question

You can also use regular expression (which I am very happy to see PG has
adopted).

You can say

select whatever from whereever where something ~* 'brian';

The style is very similar to Perl's adoption of Regular Expression, its
called
Learn-Once-Use-Many.....

See page 77 of "PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook, SAMS" or your nearest
PG web page.

scott.marlowe wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Brian Avis wrote:
>
>
>
>>Assuming the data in the text field will resemble any of the following.
>>
>>Brian K. Avis
>>Brian Avis
>>Brian
>>
>>Or whatever combo.
>>
>>
>>Brian Avis wrote:
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>>
>>>I want to run a SELECT on a text field and match any of the following.
>>>
>>>brian
>>>Brian
>>>BRIAN
>>>
>>>Or any other combination.   How do I tell SQL to ignore case when
>>>doing a SELECT?
>>>
>>>
>
>the other method, which I forgot to add to my previous post is to user
>lower()
>
>select * from table where lower(name) like '%bruce%';
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