doc: Document pg_trgm being case-insensitive by default
authorDaniel Gustafsson
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:56:02 +0000 (09:56 +0200)
committerDaniel Gustafsson
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:56:02 +0000 (09:56 +0200)
pg_trgm is by default operating case-insensitively but the docs didn't
mention that at all.

Author: Erik Rijkers 
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166064504415.652.12724576876807446945@wrigleys.postgresql.org

doc/src/sgml/pgtrgm.sgml

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    the above-described similarity operators, and additionally support
    trigram-based index searches for LIKEILIKE,
    ~~* and = queries.
+   The similarity comparisons are case-insensitive in a default build of
+   pg_trgm.
    Inequality operators are not supported.
    Note that those indexes may not be as efficient as regular B-tree indexes
    for equality operator.