RE: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches

1999-05-06 Thread Thomas Good
ED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 3:53 PM > To: pgsql-general > Subject:[GENERAL] Case insensitive searches Michael, I stuck with this format for awhile, in the interests of trying to write generic code and then the '~*' operator was just too han

RE: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches

1999-05-06 Thread Michael J Davis
ql-general Subject: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches Hi, When using mSQL I can perform case insensitive queries by using statements like below: select some_field from table where another_field clike '%substring_

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches

1999-05-06 Thread Aaron Holtz
Maybe not the fastest, but: select some_field from table where lower(another_field) like lower('%substring_entered_by_user%'); That will lower case the search field and item to do the match against. -- Aaron Holtz

[GENERAL] Case insensitive searches

1999-05-06 Thread Paulo Parola
Hi, When using mSQL I can perform case insensitive queries by using statements like below: select some_field from table where another_field clike '%substring_entered_by_user%' How should I do that with PostgreSQL? (I understand 'clike' is not a standard SQL feature and there is no simi

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive searches?

1999-04-12 Thread Oleg Broytmann
Hi! On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Mike Barnes wrote: > Hiho ... I'd really like to know if anyone has any good suggestions for > performing case insensitive searches on data in a 6.3 server using Perl. If > there's some really obvious solution I'm missing, please club me over the > head with it. Make

[GENERAL] Case insensitive searches?

1999-04-12 Thread Mike Barnes
Hiho ... I'd really like to know if anyone has any good suggestions for performing case insensitive searches on data in a 6.3 server using Perl. If there's some really obvious solution I'm missing, please club me over the head with it. And I hate to barge into a mailing list and make complaints,