Re: Case Insensitive Foreign Key Constraint - Mailing list pgsql-general

From George Weaver
Subject Re: Case Insensitive Foreign Key Constraint
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In response to Case Insensitive Foreign Key Constraint  ("George Weaver" <gweaver@shaw.ca>)
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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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