From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: teo@flex.ro
Cc: hannu@tm.ee
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Case insensitive LIKE ?
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 08:29:51 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <m11hv3P-0000bFC@druid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <381C3665.572E14EF@flex.ro>
Thus spake Constantin Teodorescu
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > select * from t where lower(name) like 'john%';
> Yes, it may work, but probably lower(name) won't work on ODBC->MS Access
Don't know about the M$ issue but if you do use the above you may want to
do the following to speed things up.
CREATE INDEX lower_name ON t (LOWER(name) text_ops);
A simple index on name won't help in the above query.
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