From: | Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net> |
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To: | Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Best way to store case-insensitive data? |
Date: | 2010-06-10 21:14:04 |
Message-ID: | 4C11559C.7070904@squeakycode.net |
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On 6/10/2010 3:50 PM, Mike Christensen 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(at)bar(dot)com to be able to login with
> FOO(at)Bar(dot)com 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!
>
> Mike
>
There is citext in contrib, it makes case insensitive text columns.
-Andy
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