From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: nolan@celery.tssi.com
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: \"\"Advocacy PostgreSQL\"\" <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:54:24 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <20030623015333.E95856@hub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030623032929.28505.qmail@celery.tssi.com>
References: <20030623032929.28505.qmail@celery.tssi.com>
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 nolan@celery.tssi.com wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 nolan@celery.tssi.com wrote:
> >
> > > MySQL also does case independent text comparisions, and apparently ONLY
> > > case-insensitive comparisons.
> >
> > Is this a good thing? Doesn't sound like it to me, but figured I'd ask :)
>
> I think it is a classic case of thinking 'small'. :-)
>
> The CIO on the project I'm working on thinks it is a good thing,
> but he's coming from a MySQL environment, which he only learned in the
> last year or so and he does not appear to have a lot of familiarity with
> larger databases.
>
> Personally, if I want case insensitivity, I'll WRITE IT INTO THE CODE,
> but I can see how some people might think that 'NOLAN', 'Nolan' and
> 'nolan' should be considered as the same data.
Oh, you mean like "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field ~* 'nolan';"?
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