Thread: Case insensitive uniqueness on column?

Can this be done in postgres?

doug wrote:
> Can this be done in postgres?

You mean:

    Case insensitive uniqueness on column?

Yes.  You have to create a functional index on the column using
lower(col), like:

    CREATE UNIQUE INDEX uq on tab (lower(col))

I think that will work.

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