On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 09:03, mlw wrote: > I was at a client office reviewing some code. They use MSSQL and I > noticed that: > > select * from table where field = 'blah'; > gave the same results as: > select * from table where field = 'BLah'; > > I was shocked. (a) because I know a lot of my code could be easier to > write, and (b) that their code would break on every other database I am > aware of. Does anyone know about this?
Same thing with MySQL. It's a royal pain in the ass. It makes using non-ascii (unicode for example) text near to impossible because of this. > Is it practical/desirable for PostgreSQL to have this as a configuration > setting? I think we already support this. Create a new character set with upper / lower case specified as being equal and PostgreSQL should behave as expected. -- Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc
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