Hi Peter, thanks for the news, this is as i thought a quite a bit of a
setback actually due to the fact that we do a lot of text searching and I
can't force a case on the inputs (maybe I can on some).

Do you know when such a collation will be ready? days/weeks/months?

Thanks in advance

-Thomas Leggett
tl@...

----- Original Message -----
From: "peter_jacobi.rm" <peter_jacobi@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 12:27 AM
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Case-insensitive selects


> Hi Ann,
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> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Ann W. Harrison" wrote:
> > We have case-insensitive collating sequences so you can declare a
> field to
> > be case insensitive by assigning a character set / collating
> sequence pair
> > to it.
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> Actually we don't have case insensitive collations in FB1.5, as there
> was a problem with the binary compatibility of Dave's collations.
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> Of course it is relatively easy to make a no-case collation, but it's
> neither included nor (for FB1.5) readily available.
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> If I'm missing something here and it is possible to use Dave's
> collations with FB1.5, please correct me.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Jacobi
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