jlmssilva wrote: > I'm experienced with SQL Server (now learning pg) > and there only by choosing the appropriate collation I get > case/accent sensitivity policy well defined. Is there any similar > parameter in pg that I've missed and have the same effect? You could try to define your own locale, but I'm not sure how that works on Windows. Rumour has it that some people to accent-insensitive comparisons using the to_ascii function. Since the notion of accent-sensitivity differs between languages, it'd probably be best if you wrote your own conversion function. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/