On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Chris Curvey <ch...@chriscurvey.com> wrote:
> >> > 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".) > > > yes, is just a case-sensitivity issue. yes, is a varchar field. but what i dont understand is why the problem of "insensitivity" is only with ñ (lower). i mean, if i remove my ñ (and subsecuent chars), both querys return the same rows: pgon=# set client_encoding = SQL_ASCII; SET pgon=# SELECT DISTINCT p.id, p.apellido, p.nombre FROM personal.personas AS p WHERE p.apellido ilike '%NU%'; id | apellido | nombre -------+----------------+------------------ 39489 | NUÑEZ | JUAN 39937 | PEREZ NUÑEZ | FRANCISCO 40229 | PANNUNZIO | MARIA CRISTINA 39453 | GUARNUCIO | CARLA GISELLE 39498 | NUÑEZ ESQUIBEL | RICARDO RODOLFO 40326 | MANUZZA | ANDREA ALEJANDRA 40205 | NIETO FRAGNUL | LAUTARO ALFREDO 40220 | NUÑEZ VERA | MANUEL SANTIAGO (8 rows) pgon=# SELECT DISTINCT p.id, p.apellido, p.nombre FROM personal.personas AS p WHERE p.apellido ilike '%nu%'; id | apellido | nombre -------+----------------+------------------ 39489 | NUÑEZ | JUAN 39937 | PEREZ NUÑEZ | FRANCISCO 40229 | PANNUNZIO | MARIA CRISTINA 39453 | GUARNUCIO | CARLA GISELLE 39498 | NUÑEZ ESQUIBEL | RICARDO RODOLFO 40326 | MANUZZA | ANDREA ALEJANDRA 40205 | NIETO FRAGNUL | LAUTARO ALFREDO 40220 | NUÑEZ VERA | MANUEL SANTIAGO (8 rows) what makes the 'ñ' char special that makes the queries the same when it is not there? -- Roberto Scattini
