From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: Chris <csmith@squiz.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Case Sensitive "WHERE" Clauses?
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:33:35 +0200
Message-ID: <200209270133.35024.barwick@gmx.net> (raw)
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On Friday 27 September 2002 01:14, Chris wrote:
> >On Thursday 26 September 2002 19:54, Jordan Reiter wrote:
> > > Are string comparisons in postgresql case sensitive?
> >
> >Yes, unless you specify otherwise.
> >
> >Are you sure you are using the right database? I can
> >reproduce similar results, but only like this:
>
> You're using MySQL in these examples .. not Postgres :)
Full points for paying attention ;-)
This, erm, characteristic of the former caused me a lot of grief once...
Anyone know what the ANSI standard is? I don`t recall any other
database apart from MySQL which default to case-insensitive
CHAR or VARCHAR columns.
Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net
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