case-sensitive

I'm developing an app in Rails on OS X using PostgreSQL 8.4. I need to setup the database for the app so that standard text queries are case-insensitive. For example: SELECT * FROM documents WHERE title = 'incredible document' should return the same result as: SELECT * FROM documents WHERE title = 'Incredible Document' Just to be clear, I don't want to use: (1) LIKE in the where clause or any other type of special comparison operators (2) citext for the column datatype or any other special column index (3) any type of full-text software like Sphinx What I do want is to set the database locale

I have used the statfs(2) system call to get many characteristics of a Mac OS X filesystem, but it doesn't tell me if the filesystem is case-sensitive or not. I need this information as the application I am developing will be moving many files around and I want to detect potential loss of data due to files being moved from a case- sensitive filesystem to a case- insensitive filesystem. Can anyone suggest a way of detecting this? Don J Brady If you're already using stat(2) , then you can easily use pathconf(2) with the _PC_CASE_SENSITIVE selector (result 0 = case-insensitve, 1 = case-sensitive.

Does anyone know how I can make an IN clause behave in a case sensitive manner? I have seen that COLLATE can be used with LIKE for string searching but I don't know if or how it can be used with IN. For example I want to do something like SELECT * FROM pages_table WHERE topic IN ('Food','NightLife','Drinks') And I want it to return pages where the topic is 'Food' but not those where the topic is 'food' which is currently what happens on this query. Thanks. You can actually use it as you have likely seen in other examples: SELECT * FROM pages_table WHERE CAST(topic AS CHAR CHARACTER SET latin1)

I'd like to sort my swift struct array using another comparison method (like localizedCompare, caseInsensitiveCompare or localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare). The swift standard string array sort function orders all uppercase letters before lowercase letters. Here's my code: import Foundation struct DataStruct { struct Item { let title: String let number: Int } static var items = [ Item(title: "apple", number: 30), Item(title: "Berry", number: 9), Item(title: "apple", number: 18)] } class DataFunctions { func sortItemsArrayTitle() { DataStruct.items.sort { $0.title < $1.title } } } Once called,

I have a table that originates in an old legacy system that was case senstive, in particular a status column where 's' = 'Schedule import' and 'S' = 'Schedule management'. This table eventually makes its way into a SQL Server 2000 database which I can query against. My query is relatively simple just going for counts... Select trans_type, count(1) from mytable group by trans_type This is grouping the counts for 'S' along with the 's' counts. Is there any way to force a query to be cap sensitive? I have access to both SQL Server 2000 and 2005 environments to run this, however have limited admin

I'm getting pretty frustrated figuring out how to add a lowercase header field to an NSMutableURLRequest. NSMutableURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:MyURLString]]; [urlRequest setValue:@"aValue" forHTTPHeaderField:@"field"]; In the example above, "field" gets switched to "Field," since the header field names are case insensitive. I would think this shouldn't happen, but it does. The API I am working with is case sensitive, so my GET request is ignored. Is there any way to override the case switch? HTTP header fields are supposed to be case