Re: Lower or Upper case for F.33. pg_trgm

Op 16-08-2022 om 13:46 schreef Daniel Gustafsson:
>> On 16 Aug 2022, at 12:54, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Op 16-08-2022 om 12:36 schreef Daniel Gustafsson:
>>>> On 16 Aug 2022, at 12:17, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>>> I have a question regarding the trigram algorithm and I can not find any
>>>> information about it in your documentation:
>>> Maybe we should add something about this?
>>
>> Yeah, it's a bit strange that none of the following strings yield any info on that page:  'case', 'sensitiv',
'upper','lower', and that there is no mention of the  ~  versus  ~*  difference.
 
>>
>> Maybe worth to (already in pgtrgm.html) give the simple hint:
>>   ~  is case-sensitive
>>   ~* is case-insensitive
>>
>> In any case a link to  functions-matching.html  seems indicated.
> 
> Yeah, I think there is room for improvements here.  Are you up for drafting a
> patch for this?
> 

How is this?

(bluntly stating 'similarity comparisons are case-insensitive' - 
although I'm not really sure..)


Erik

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