Re: [Wikitech-l] Case Insensitive Database Lookups

I have an open bug in CentralNotice [1] where I have a search function by name for old content. Naively this happens as a LIKE query on the table's name column. Though this works, it fails at being case insensitive because the table, like most(all?) other tables on the WMF cluster, has by default binary charset/collation. Given that I want to support case insensitive searching; does anyone have any thoughts or examples on how to go about doing it in a binary table? The only solution I can think of would be to change the collation/charset of the table in question to utf8. Would that be a bad idea? I'm led to understand the binary default came about because older versions of MySQL did not support the full multilingual plane. But this might no longer be an issue with MariaDB 5.6? [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53751 ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising Technology Team _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l