On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:35, Dwayne Miller wrote: > I know that the MSSQL code works because the default collation sequence > for character fields is case-insensitive. You can change it for each > field independantly to be case sensitive, local specific, etc. I'm not > sure if PG supports a collation sequence attribute on column > definitions/indexes.
Seems to, but it's on a database level -- not per column / index. In other-words, you could potentially make the entire database case insensitive. I've not tried this myself, but there are people on the list who could answer this definitively. > Rod Taylor wrote: > > >On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >>>--le 12/03/2003 09:03 -0500, mlw écrivait : > >>>| 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? > >>>| > >>>| Is it practical/desirable for PostgreSQL to have this as a > >>>configuration | setting? > >>> > >>>Well, I quite don't see any difference with writing : > >>>select * from table where lower(field) = lower('BLah'); > >>> > >>> > >>That would probably require an extra index, especially if 'field' is a > >>primary key. > >> > >> > > > >I don't know about MSSql, but on MySQL you also require a different > >index for a case sensitive comparison. Problem is, they don't (didn't) > >support functional indexes -- so you simply couldn't make one. > > > >End up with: WHERE field = 'var' and strcasecmp(field, 'var') everywhere > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org -- Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc
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