Re: Make a column case insensitive

On 8/6/2004 11:29 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:

> Is it possible to make a column case insensitive, without having to pepper your SELECTs with lots of lower() function calls (and forgetting to do it at times !)
> 
> (I'm on 7.4.3)

With a little bit of legwork you can create an itext data type. It would 
just use textin() and textout() for the data type declaration itself. From there you'd define a bunch of comparision operators that are based 
on sql functions doing case insensitive comparision, plus an operator 
class and a couple of implicit casts. I don't think you'd even need a 
single line of C code for that new data type.


Jan


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> Thanks,
> 
> GTG
> 
> Gordon Ross,
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