Re: [GENERAL] non-case sensitive searches

darold <darold@neptune.fr>

From: Gilles Darold <darold@neptune.fr>
To: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-01-13T08:52:47Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hi Kevin,

You can also use regexp expression like this :

    SELECT * FROM photos WHERE keywords ~* '.*$cat_name.*';

it works fine.

Gilles

Kevin Heflin wrote:

> Currently I have a select statement like so:
>
> select * from photos where keywords LIKE '%$cat_name%'
>
> The above select statement works, except that it is case sensitive.
> Is there a way to do this that is not case sensitive?
>
> Kevin
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