Variable collation with MySQL stored procedure?

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Published on 2010-05-30T04:15:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/30 4:22 UTC
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I want to do something like this in a stored procedure:

IF case_sensitive = FALSE THEN
  SET search_collation = "utf8_unicode_ci";
ELSE
  SET search_collation = "utf8_bin";
END IF;

INSERT INTO TABLE1 (field1, field2)
SELECT * FROM TABLE 2 WHERE some_field LIKE '%rarf%' collate search_collation;

However, when I do this, I get

ERROR 1273 (HY000): Unknown collation: 'search_collation'

How can I use a dynamic collation without having two copies of the same query?

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