Re: Possible to set postgres in case insensitive mode ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Possible to set postgres in case insensitive mode ?
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Msg-id dcc563d11001291844x56704a8amdfdba43738c64ebb@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Possible to set postgres in case insensitive mode ?  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Possible to set postgres in case insensitive mode ?  (Moe <mohamed5432154321@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Moe <mohamed5432154321@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to set postgres in case insensitive mode ?
>>
>> If so, how?
>
> What part, exactly, do you want to be case insensitive?  I assume you
> mean a text / varchar type?  Look for citext, I believe it's a contrib
> module, until 9.0 is out, which will include it natively.

It's here:
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/citext/
But it doesn't work in 8.3 or 8.4, only 8.2 and before.  So either run
that or wait for 9.0 I guess.

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