Re: ILIKE
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
From: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-24T12:04:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 23:31, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes: > > - Some other databases support ILIKE and it makes porting easier. > > Which other ones? I checked our archives and found that when we were > discussing adding ILIKE, it was claimed that Oracle had it. But I can't > find anything on the net to verify that claim. I did find that mSQL > (not MySQL) had it, as far back as 1996. Nothing else seems to --- but > Google did provide a lot of hits on pages saying that ILIKE is a mighty > handy Postgres-ism ;-) Isn't MySQL case insensitive by default? I know the ='s operator is (was?) 'a' = 'A' -- Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc