From: Oisin Glynn <me@oisinglynn.com>
To: Juliann Meyer <Julie.Meyer@noaa.gov>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how do I check for lower case
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:49:49 -0400
Message-ID: <44DBB80D.50707@oisinglynn.com> (raw)
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Juliann Meyer wrote:
> I have a table with a column, lets call it identifier, that is defined
> as varchar(8) that should never contain lower case letters. Its a
> large table. Is there a way to query the table to see if any values
> in this column are lower case and to get a list out? The user
> interface application that users use prevents them from adding an
> entry in lower case now, but didn't in earlier version.
> Julie
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Not sure if this is over simple and perhaps this would be a concern on
a very large table but
select * from table where identifier <> upper(identifier);
would give a list of all where the entry is not all uppercase?
Oisin
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