From: Daryl Richter <daryl@eddl.us>
To: Juliann Meyer <Julie.Meyer@noaa.gov>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how do I check for lower case
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:46:52 -0400
Message-ID: <C101218C.443F%daryl@eddl.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DB97C5.9090307@noaa.gov>
On 8/10/06 4:32 PM, "Juliann Meyer" <Julie.Meyer@noaa.gov> 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.
select * from table where column ~ '[a-z]'
>
> Julie
>
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Daryl
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