Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches

Maybe not the fastest, but:

select some_field from table where lower(another_field) like
    lower('%substring_entered_by_user%');


That will lower case the search field and item to do the match against.

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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Paulo Parola wrote:

>Hi,
>
>When using mSQL I can perform case insensitive queries by using statements
>like below:
>
>   select some_field
>   from table
>   where another_field clike '%substring_entered_by_user%'
>
>How should I do that with PostgreSQL? (I understand 'clike' is not a
>standard SQL feature and there is no similar in PostgreSQL).
>
>If I change the substring entered by the user, lets say for example 'more',
>to the following form '[mM][oO][rR][eE]' would it work?
>
>And if I have words with accents (lets say 'K�nstler') how should I do to
>return the same entries no matter if the user types the accent or not? In
>the previous case, the search should return the same values no matter if the
>user entered the word 'K�nstler' (with accent) or if he typed 'Kunstler'
>(without accent).
>
>TIA,
>PAulo
>
>
>