I am obviuously doing some newbie trick, and I ordinarily would spend time browing the archives, but the archives.postgresql.org site seems to be absurdly slow.
This is 7.3.3 on a linux box. I have a bunch of data with state, city, county and country names. When our application does a search for an exact match: select * from gx_geotowns where l_state = 'NM'; I get back a lot of rows of cities in New Mexico, as expected. If I try: select * from gx_geotowns where upper(l_state) = upper('nm'); I get back: ---------+-----------+----------+------------+------+------ (0 rows) I've used other databases in which a similar statement worked as exepected: select * from clients where upper(client_name) = upper("Some client or otheR"); And it finds the row(s) in question ... I just know I'm overlooking some real obvious thing but for some reason this eludes me. I could see if the search was very slow (the function returns type "text" and the indexed columns are of type CHAR(). If someone could offer help I would appreciate it, Thanks, Greg Williamson DBA GlobeXplorer LLC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster