Re: Lower or Upper case for F.33. pg_trgm

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: marcmaiwald@googlemail.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-08-16T10:36:20Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
> On 16 Aug 2022, at 12:17, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:

> I have a question regarding the trigram algorithm and I can not find any
> information about it in your documentation:

Maybe we should add something about this?

> Do you distinguish between lower and uppercase? Or do you consider all words
> in lowercase?

There is support for compiling pg_trgm case sensitive, but it's by default case
insensitive.

# SELECT word_similarity('word', 'WORD');
 word_similarity
-----------------
               1
(1 row)

> Happy to get a short feedback from you,

I would recommend the pg_general mailinglist as that will be a safer way to get
general questions answered.

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/




Commits

  1. doc: Consistently spell case-insensitive

  2. doc: Document pg_trgm being case-insensitive by default