Where do I get info on installing this? On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have a column called "email" that users login with, thus I need to >> be able to lookup email very quickly. The problem is, emails are >> case-insensitive. I want foo@xxxxxxx to be able to login with >> FOO@xxxxxxx as well. There's two ways of doing this, that I can see: >> >> 1) Every time I lookup an email in the database, do a case-insensitive >> ilike, or cast both sides with LOWER(). I think both are slow, >> correct? >> 2) Every time the user updates or saves their email, store it in >> lowercase, and every time I lookup an email, pass in a lowercase >> email. This is somewhat of a bug farm because one might miss some >> little spot in a piece of code where an email is compared or updated. >> >> Is there any way to tell postgres to always store data in lowercase >> form, or just have a flat out case-insensitive column? Thanks! > > The contrib module citext provides a case insensitive text type. > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
