Re: Flag for insentive use of Postgres?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:03:30PM +0200, Andreas Schlegel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a flag to set which determines if queries run successful with a
> case sensitive or case insensitive WHERE clause:
>
> For example: if I have a name1 colum with a value 'Test' I would like to
> search for 'test' and get also this row
> (select * from tTest where name1='test')

If all you want is the values to match without case sensitivity, use
ILIKE.  (The rules are different in different locales, and I don't
even know how ILIKE works for non-C locales.)

A

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