Re: Case Insensitive Database - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ozer, Pam
Subject Re: Case Insensitive Database
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Msg-id C3CA20D47A2DF94FBF9CF0AE8D964CC412436B@mail-001.corp.automotive.com
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In response to Re: Case Insensitive Database  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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How does the performance compare to using lower(varchar) vs citext?

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:11 PM
To: Ozer, Pam
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Case Insensitive Database

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ozer, Pam <pozer@automotive.com> wrote:
> I currently have a mysql database that is case insensitive.  Is it possible
> to set up a case insensitive database in PostgressQl?  So far it doesn't
> look like it.  And if it is possible what are the variables I need to set?

You can use the contrib module for citext types.

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