Re: [SQL] ignore case in where clause

2012-03-22 Thread Edward W. Rouse
That was exactly it, Thanks. > -Original Message- > From: pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql- > ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Lelarge > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:39 PM > To: Edward W. Rouse > Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org > Subject:

Re: [SQL] ignore case in where clause

2012-03-22 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 16:26 -0400, Edward W. Rouse wrote: > I am currently using lower(column) = '' for matching case insensitive. I > know that there are ways to do this with regular expressions too. I recently > noticed that including even one lower causes severe performance issues (from > 290ms

[SQL] ignore case in where clause

2012-03-22 Thread Edward W. Rouse
I am currently using lower(column) = '' for matching case insensitive. I know that there are ways to do this with regular expressions too. I recently noticed that including even one lower causes severe performance issues (from 290ms to over 80Kms). What is the best way, performance wise, to do cas