True, I know this one, but by default the other database servers support case-insensitivity, this includes oracle, mysql, sapdb if I am not wrong since its oracle compatible.
We had to change our application to deal with this by lowercasing all the data which we never had a problem with in MySQL prior to swapping to Postgres, but the thing is that if we had to have a search through the database server for our web app it would be tricky ! ASD. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 04:46, Jens Tautenhahn wrote: > > The only thing that I dislike about Postgres is the case-sensitivity of > > data in the database, if anybody knows how to turn it off let me know. > > You can use select statements like this: > select * from abc where upper(xyz) = 'SEARCH'; > select * from abc where xyz ~* 'search'; > > POSIX Regular Expressions include operators for case insensitive > matches. > > Jens > > -- > registered linux user #130250 > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Aly S.P Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student and System Administrator ORS Servers "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
