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Re: [metabase-dev] SQL LIKE Case insensitive ILIKE

Hello,

on 08/06/2006 03:02 PM idiroddi said the following:
> I have been using Metabase and MySQL for awhile now. I just started
> playing around with PostgreSQL (using Metabase) last night. Looks like
> SQL LIKE is case sensitive with PostgreSQL, and using ILIKE isnt portable.
>
> Does the new Metabase Pattern Matching feature work this out? If so
> could you please give an example using: "WHERE lastname like lastname%'"
>
> I'm trying to produce the case insensitive results that MySQL would
> return.

You are right. Now that you mentioned it, I noticed that is not
consistent accross all browsers.

Maybe I should force it to use the case insensitive option by default,
and have an function to make it case sensitive for those that may need that.

What do you think?

I need to investigate if it is possible to make it case insensitive with
all databases.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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Tue Aug 8, 2006 9:11 pm

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Hello Manuel- I have been using Metabase and MySQL for awhile now. I just started playing around with PostgreSQL (using Metabase) last night. Looks like SQL...
idiroddi
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Aug 6, 2006
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Hello, ... You are right. Now that you mentioned it, I noticed that is not consistent accross all browsers. Maybe I should force it to use the case insensitive...
Manuel Lemos
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Aug 8, 2006
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... portable. ... lastname%'" ... need that. ... I think that would be great. I have noticed other differences in SQL between MySQL and PostgreSQL. Do you know...
idiroddi
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Aug 8, 2006
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