Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Filename searching and case insensitivity

2011-04-05 22:23:35
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Filename searching and case insensitivity
From: Kernel Panic <kpnemesis AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 03:19:55 +0100
On 6 April 2011 02:37, Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Kernel Panic wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Whilst trying to find a way of doing a case-insensitive search for
>> file, I found previous posts on the mailing lists that instructed me
>> to use the sqlquery function in bacula. As a test I wanted to search
>> for files with zfs in their name and then with ZFS in the name. After
>> starting up bconsole and entering sqlquery mode I did the following:
>>
>> USE bacula;
>> SELECT * FROM Filename WHERE name LIKE '%ZFS%';
>> SELECT * FROM Filename WHERE name LIKE '%zfs%';
>>
>> Although the commands worked, they only returned case-sensitive
>> matches, despite MySQL's documentation stating that pattern matching
>> is case-insensitive by default:
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/pattern-matching.html
>>
>> Can anyone help me?
>
> Have you tried ilike instead of like?  It is available on PostgreSQL.  I 
> don't know about MySQL.
>
> Consider also:
>
> SELECT * FROM Filename where lower(name) LIKE %zfs%;

Unfortunately ilike/ILIKE do not seem to be valid operators in MySQL.
The lower(name) doesn't cause a problem but the results are still
case-sensitive

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