doc: Document pg_trgm being case-insensitive by default

pg_trgm is by default operating case-insensitively but the docs didn't
mention that at all.

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

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgtrgm.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgtrgm.sgml
index 7e292822553e5191a9a00b4d6d709bfaf71ea73b..fefe30afb7caca61265c37fe2b24a38c770e9203 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pgtrgm.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgtrgm.sgml
@@ -416,6 +416,8 @@
    the above-described similarity operators, and additionally support
    trigram-based index searches for <literal>LIKE</literal>, <literal>ILIKE</literal>,
    <literal>~</literal>, <literal>~*</literal> and <literal>=</literal> queries.
+   The similarity comparisons are case-insensitive in a default build of
+   <filename>pg_trgm</filename>.
    Inequality operators are not supported.
    Note that those indexes may not be as efficient as regular B-tree indexes
    for equality operator.