Re: Case insensitive indexing in posgtres?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: sandeep satpal <sandeep(at)it(dot)iitb(dot)ac(dot)in>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Case insensitive indexing in posgtres?
Date: 2005-09-09 10:54:00
Message-ID: 20050909105355.GA30738@svana.org
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On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:00:57PM +0530, sandeep satpal wrote:
>
> Dear ,
>
> One of the difference in mysql and postgresql is case insensitiveness.
> I want to midify the code of posgresql so that it can support case
> insensitiveness in indexing and in join operation.

Use citext:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/citext/projdisplay.php
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