Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

#507 closed enhancement (fixed)

Make startswith and endswith case-sensitive in MySQL

Reported by: Simon Willison Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: Database layer (models, ORM) Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

At the moment, startswith and endswith are not case-sensitive. There are two potential fixes.

In the MySQL manual it says this:


The following two statements illustrate that string comparisons are not case sensitive unless one of the operands is a binary string:

mysql> SELECT 'abc' LIKE 'ABC';
        -> 1
mysql> SELECT 'abc' LIKE BINARY 'ABC';
        -> 0

LIKE BINARY could solve the problem (I haven't yet tried it myself) - we would need to check which versions of MySQL it is available in though.

If that doesn't work, how about adding a mechanism to the database layer where a Python function can be defined to perform further processing on a database result set before handing it back? The MySQL backend could then define a function for startswith and endswith that runs a normal case-insesitive search and then filters the results in Python code to find only case-sensitive matches. This would allow missing functionality to be patched in to other database modules as desired.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [1036]) Fixed #507 -- Changed MySQL backend so that it uses 'LIKE BINARY' for case-sensitive comparisons -- contains, startswith and endswith. Thanks, Simon

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