On Wednesday 31 March 2004 16:31, Alexander Cohen wrote: > is it possible to have postgres return a "SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY > table_column" query that is not case sensitive order? SELECT first_name FROM foo ORDER BY lower(first_name) Of course, then you can't guarantee whether you get "Alex" then "alex" or the other way around, so you might want: SELECT first_name FROM foo ORDER BY lower(first_name), first_name > Also, i noticed that postgres will let me create groups, databases and > users with spaces in their names, is this ok or should i check this > beforehand and not allow this? You need to quote the names to create them this way. If you do so, you need to quote them when you use them, so: CREATE MyTable / SELECT FROM mytable/MYTABLE/MyTaBle... CREATE "MyTable" / SELECT FROM "MyTable" -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly