Re: Case Insensitive Database

How does the performance compare to using lower(varchar) vs citext?

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

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ozer, Pam <pozer(at)automotive(dot)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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