Re: Case insensitive LIKE queries

select * from myTable where upper(myField) like 'TEST';

Upper will change the fields to upper case for testing purposes.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yann Ramin" <atrus@atrustrivalie.eu.org>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:05 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] Case insensitive LIKE queries


> Hello,
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> What would be the most effective way of preforming a case-insensitive LIKE
> query?  I've notived that MySQL somehow ALWAYS does it case insensitive,
> which is not very smart, but I should expect this feature to exist without
> reasonable pain on the programmer;s end?
>
> Yann
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