Paul,
we have contrib module mchar, which does what you need. We developed it
when porting from MS SQL one very popular in Russia accounting software.
It's available from http://v8.1c.ru/overview/postgres_patches_notes.htm,
in Russian. I don't rememeber about license, though.
Oleg
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Paul Lambert wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>> You could preface all your queries with something like:
>>
>> select * from foo where lower(bar) = lower('qualifer');
>>
>> But that seems a bit silly.
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>
>>
>
> I'm trying to avoid having to alter all of my queries, per the OP I've got
> several hundred if not thousands of them and if I have to change them all to
> put lower() around all the text, that is a lot of time.
>
> If I have to do that I will, I'm just curious if there was an ability to tell
> pg to not be case sensitive when doing lookups.
>
> Judging by the responses so far, there is not... so I'll get to work :)
>
>
Regards,
Oleg
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