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The DB belongs to an application that we have in house. I don't have the option to change or add anything, only query.<br />
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Using 'Lower' worked, just didn't think it was the best solution.<br />
I just thought the postgress would have had a built in option to query case insensitive.<br />
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Thanks
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The DB belongs to an application that we have in house. I don't have the option to change or add anything, only query.

Using 'Lower' worked, just didn't think it was the best solution.
I just thought the postgress would have had a built in option to query case insensitive.

Thanks

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If you cannot create an index, then I would look at ILIKE or regular expressions. &nbsp;Those can be found <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-matching.html" rel="ugc">here</a>. &nbsp;However, I don't think there is going to be much of a performance difference with using LOWER, but you can try.
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If you cannot create an index, then I would look at ILIKE or regular expressions.  Those can be found here [https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-matching.html].  However, I don't think there is going to be much of a performance difference with using LOWER, but you can try.

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Thanks for the help.<br />
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The 'lower' cmd didn't slow the query down as much as I thought it would.<br />
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Thanks
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Thanks for the help.

The 'lower' cmd didn't slow the query down as much as I thought it would.

Thanks

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I want to perform a text search on my Postgress table and I want the search to be case -Insensitive.<br />
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I have seen some examples of case-insensitive searches using the UPPER or LOWER command, but this would consume a lot of resources.<br />
Doesn't Postgress have option for the SELECT cmd to ignore text case ?<br />
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Thank you.
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I want to perform a text search on my Postgress table and I want the search to be case -Insensitive.

I have seen some examples of case-insensitive searches using the UPPER or LOWER command, but this would consume a lot of resources.
Doesn't Postgress have option for the SELECT cmd to ignore text case ?

Thank you.

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