Here's the problem as I see it (demo SQL is lame, but makes the point):
SELECT trim(name) FROM names WHERE name LIKE('Ben') and name
ILIKE('benjamin')
...you can't do that in SqLite using a pragma, can you? If you can, I'd
sure like to learn how.
If you can't, not to belabor the point, but you *can* do it in PostgreSQL,
and while I'm not suggesting that SqLite should strive for the
sophistication of PostgreSQL, the issue of SQL programmer ability to use,
and mix, both case-sensitive and case-insensitive means is pretty basic
stuff.
If the SQL spec for LIKE is "collation of characters", fine, by all means
implement the capability another way that uses more reasonable means. I
don't care what it is called at *all*.
The lack of the *ability* really can't be defended. It's down to "how to do
it", not "why do it."
Textual data has case. Sometimes that matters. Sometimes it doesn't. A
database engine should be able to cleanly deal with that without forcing
the programmer to write custom code.
--Ben
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