> On Dec 15, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Musall, Maik <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> ILIKE is certainly useful for full text searches with CLOB/TEXT values and in 
> combination with GiST/GIN indexes, but IMHO not for regular case-insensitive
> queries using b-tree indexes. So I'm not sure that 
> PostgresQualifierTranslator does the right thing here.
> 
> How is everyone else indexing varchar columns for case-insensitive queries on 
> PostgreSQL?

I'd be interested to hear from others as well. PostgreSQL docs simply say "The 
key word ILIKE can be used instead of LIKE to make the match case-insensitive 
according to the active locale." There is not a slightest hint at performance 
degradation and not using indexes.

Andrus

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