Re: Case sensitivity when searching for and displaying data

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On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 18:31, Lynna Landstreet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've gotten a simple PHP search page working on the artists database that
> I've been developing these past few months, but I'm running into a few
> problems with PostgreSQL's case sensitivity.
> 
> Ideally I'd like the search text to case insensitive, so that if the user
> enters "jane smith", "Jane Smith" or "JANE SMITH", they'll still find the
> record for Jane Smith. But I'm not sure how to do that.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE upper(column) = upper('search value');

> Secondly, the case sensitivity thing is also messing up the order of the

SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY upper(column);

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