From: Chris <csmith@squiz.net>
To: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Case Sensitive "WHERE" Clauses?
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:14:04 +1000
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020927090709.02f125d0@cooee.squiz.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209270100.14503.barwick@gmx.net>
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<a05100312b9b8f9c321b3@[63.172.201.5]>
>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 :)
(FYI - Just tried this with 7.3beta and I got the same results as everyone
else .. it is case sensitive).
Chris.
>mysql> create temporary table foo (ch char(2), vc varchar(2));
>Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.12 sec)
>
>mysql> insert into foo values ('aa','AA');
>Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)
>
>mysql> select * from foo where ch = 'aa';
>+------+------+
>| ch | vc |
>+------+------+
>| aa | AA |
>+------+------+
>1 row in set (0.01 sec)
>
>mysql> select * from foo where ch = 'AA';
>+------+------+
>| ch | vc |
>+------+------+
>| aa | AA |
>+------+------+
>1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
>mysql> select * from foo where vc = 'aa';
>+------+------+
>| ch | vc |
>+------+------+
>| aa | AA |
>+------+------+
>1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
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