Re: Case Insensitive Foreign Key Constraint

From: "George Weaver" <gweaver(at)shaw(dot)ca>
To: "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Case Insensitive Foreign Key Constraint
Date: 2011-01-18 18:41:19
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>From: Peter Geoghegan
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Case Insensitive Foreign Key Constraint

>I would probably just have a check constraint that prevented the
>relevant PK field from being lower case in the first place. I had to
>do that recently, but my approach reflected the business rules.

This is what I've been looking at doing. My need reflects a customer's
business rules as well.

>You may prefer to use citext:>

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/citext.html

Interesting - good long term solution!

Thanks Peter.

>--
>Regards,
>Peter Geoghegan

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