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From: Oliver Vecernik <vecernik@aon.at>
To: tsattler@speakeasy.net
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Queries
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:49:22 +0200
Message-ID: <3AF323E2.CBD5ED27@aon.at> (raw)
References: <200105041512.IAA22056@webmail.speakeasy.net>

tsattler@speakeasy.net wrote:
> 
> Greetings All.
> 
> I have a record on my database with a last name of 'DeFelice'.
> 
> I want to be able to retrieve that record whether a user enters 'DeFelice', 'Defelice', 'defelice', or 'DEFELICE'.  Is there a way I can do that?  Is that what the "ilike" function does?
> 
> I'm on 7.0.3.

~* Match (regex), case insensitive is what you are looking for.

Regards,
Oliver



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