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Re: How to create case insensitive unique constraint

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I guess you can create a unique functional index with upper as the
function. Try to look up the docs for CREATE INDEX.

HTH,
Csaba.


On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:15, Andrus wrote:
> I want to disable dupplicate customer names in a database regardless to 
> case.
> 
> I tried
> 
> CREATE TABLE customer ( id SERIAL, name CHARACTER(70));
> 
> ALTER TABLE customer
>    ADD constraint customer_name_unique UNIQUE (UPPER(name));
> 
> but this is not allowed in Postgres
> 
> Any idea ?
> 
> Andrus. 
> 
> 
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