Re: [PHP] case insensitive search

I am assuming you still need an index on lower(column_name) in order to *not* do a table scan with ILIKE right? or upper(column_name)?

culley

Jon Hassen <jhassen@azstarnet.com> 03/15/02 09:36AM >>>

Have you looked in the manual?

Try: 'where ILIKE 'searchword';

At 12:01 PM +0530 3/15/02, arun kv wrote:

hello,
how to do a case insensitive search on postgresql database. i will
enter a keyword in text field and it has to search for that keyword in
keywords field of table and should be case insensitive.

can i use egrei() function. if so how.here two attributes should be
strings. but first attribute i will get from previous php page and second
attribute is field name of database table. how do i do this.
pls help me
thanking you
Arun

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