[rt-users] bug in watcher search for Postgres

[Jesse]

Ok. DBIx-SearchBuilder 0.42-test1 is up on ftp.fsck.com/pub/rt/devel

If people could test out its case insensitivity, especially for full text
searches, I'd appreciate it.

        -j

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:39:52PM +0200, Rafael Corvalan wrote:
> In fact, but this is not the only problem with Postgres. If you are a
> registered user with the e-mail "myname at macompany.com" and you send an
> e-mail with the "From" field set to "MyName at company.com", you are not
> the same user...
> Jesse told me to use the method CanonicalizeAddress() in config.pm to
> correct that (putting a lc() call), but I think this will not correct
> your problem.
> 
> If someone in the list is a postgres specialist, maybe he could tell us
> if there is a way to configure a column table to do case insensitive
> searches...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivek Khera [mailto:khera at kcilink.com] 
> Sent: lundi, 30. juillet 2001 23:11
> To: RT Users
> Subject: [rt-users] bug in watcher search for Postgres
> 
> 
> It seems that searching for matching users to add to a watcher list is
> not case-insensitive with Postgres.  For example, my ID has organization
> of "MailerMailer LLC" but searching for organization contains mail
> returns no matches.  Searching for Mail does return matches.
> 
> I'm suspecting that there are other places where case-insensitivity
> would be desirable, but isn't, due to the MySQL origins of the queries
> (which is case insensitive by default.)
> 
> The fix is to find the queries and make them something like:
> 
> $x = lc($x);
> then run query:
> 
>  select whatever from sometable where lower(fieldname) like '%$x%'
> 
> 
> I haven't dug into the code to fix this just yet.
> 
> RT version 2.0.2 (with the 2.0.3 patch)... (how does one verify this
> from the UI?)
> 
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