On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Roberto Scattini < roberto.scatt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Chris Curvey <ch...@chriscurvey.com>wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Roberto Scattini < >> roberto.scatt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> we are using postgresql 9.1 from ubuntu packages and the database >>> encoding is (sadly) SQL_ASCII >>> >>> can anybody point me in the right direction to solve this issue? >>> >>> -- >>> Roberto Scattini >>> >> >> If you could tells what you are expecting, and what you are actually >> getting, that would be helpful. >> >> > hi chris, sorry, the query with ilike '%NUÑEZ%' is returning 4 rows and > the query with ilike '%nuñez%' is returning 0 rows. > > a simplified version of the query with his results: > > > pgn=# set client_encoding = SQL_ASCII; > SET > pgon=# SELECT DISTINCT > p.id, p.apellido, p.nombre > FROM personal.personas AS p > WHERE p.apellido ilike '%nuñez%'; > id | apellido | nombre > ----+----------+-------- > (0 rows) > > pgon=# SELECT DISTINCT > p.id, p.apellido, p.nombre > FROM personal.personas AS p > WHERE p.apellido ilike '%NUÑEZ%'; > id | apellido | nombre > -------+----------------+----------------- > 39489 | NUÑEZ | JUAN > 39937 | PEREZ NUÑEZ | FRANCISCO > 39498 | NUÑEZ ESQUIBEL | RICARDO RODOLFO > 40220 | NUÑEZ VERA | MANUEL SANTIAGO > (4 rows) > > > Is this just a case-sentitvity issue? if personas.apellido is a varchar field, then I think that's your trouble. (it would have to be citext in order for "nunez" = "NUNEZ".)
