Normally, like is case sensitive.
if you want to query something case insensitive, one can use all kinds
of expressions, one that comes to mind would be
lower(col) like 'lowercase%'

creating indexes on lower(col) would speed that up.

Andreas

* Paul Kippes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070404 20:07]:
> 
> Maybe I'm not understanding this.  Is ILIKE only a mysql thing?  So is
> LIKE normally case insensitive in complaint SQL database?
> 
> On 4/4/07, Paul Kippes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In my version of sqlalchemy I didn't find any ability for ILIKE.  Is
> > this supported?
> >
> > If a patch is needed, would a new operator "ilike" be okay?
> >
> 
> 

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