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 > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx