On May 21, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Sim Zacks wrote:
> We are testing dbmail on postgresql, which uses a bytea column to
> store
> the messages. Because of this searching through messages is case
> sensitive.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to make it not case-sensitive, either by
> changing the data type (obviously without breaking the current
> functionality) or a Select Rule or any other method?
My suggestion would be to write a trigger and use tsearch to setup a
full text index. Even if you manage a case-insensitive search method,
I doubt it will be useful unless you always plan to have a small
number of messages to search.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.