KEYWORDS:
Identifier and key word names are case insensitive.  Therefore
UPDATE MY_TABLE SET A = 5;
can equivalently be written as
uPDaTE my_TabLE SeT a = 5;

IDENTIFIERS:
Quoting an identifier also makes it case-sensitive, 
whereas
    unquoted names are always folded to lower case.  
For example, the
    identifiers FOO, foo, and
    "foo" are considered the same by
    PostgreSQL, 
but
    "Foo" and "FOO" are
    different from these three and each other.  
(The folding of
    unquoted names to lower case in PostgreSQL is
    incompatible with the SQL standard, which says that unquoted names
    should be folded to upper case.  Thus, foo
    should be equivalent to "FOO" not
    "foo" according to the standard.  If you want
    to write portable applications you are advised to always quote a
    particular name or never quote it.)


in summary taking the quotes off identifiers will make your SQL statement case 
insensitive..

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-syntax.html

HTH
Martin 
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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:40:27 +0100
Subject: [GENERAL] Matching against a field case in-sensitive.
From: jamdoo...@gmail.com
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Hi,

Since PostgreSQL is by default case sensitive, I would like to know if it is 
possible to do a search or somehow set the column in a relation to be case 
insensitive (on search at least). 

I would however like to store it case sensitive so I can display it as it was 
stored.


Ps. I am not interested in creating another column.





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