From: nolan@celery.tssi.com
To: scrappy@postgresql.org
Cc: JanWieck@Yahoo.com
Cc: pgman@candle.pha.pa.us
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: mail@joeconway.com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:29:29 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <20030623032929.28505.qmail@celery.tssi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030623000257.X95856@hub.org>
> 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.
BTW, I just tested it and MySQL does case folding on values in unique
indexes, too. (Well, at least it is consistent.)
--
Mike Nolan
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