RE: Queries

For a situation like this I have always used the upper() function :

SELECT
    *
FROM
    table_name
WHERE
    upper( last_name ) = 'DEFELICE';

This way, regardless of what is stored in the last_name field, it is forced
to upper before the comparison (it doesn't later what is actually in the
field, so it's safe that way).

I'm not positive, but I believe this is more efficient than RegEx.  The nice
thing about RegEx is it is generic and has many purposes.  The bad thing
about RegEx is that *BECAUSE* it is generic, it does none of those things
particularly efficiently.

Good Luck!!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Vecernik [mailto:vecernik@aon.at]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 2:49 PM
To: tsattler@speakeasy.net
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Queries


tsattler@speakeasy.net wrote:
>
> Greetings All.
>
> I have a record on my database with a last name of 'DeFelice'.
>
> I want to be able to retrieve that record whether a user enters
'DeFelice', 'Defelice', 'defelice', or 'DEFELICE'.  Is there a way I can do
that?  Is that what the "ilike" function does?
>
> I'm on 7.0.3.

~* Match (regex), case insensitive is what you are looking for.

Regards,
Oliver

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