Re: Case Insensitive Database

Okay thanks. I can play around with it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 2:26 PM
To: Ozer, Pam
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Case Insensitive Database

I'm not sure. I've always used lower() with indexes on lower() for myself.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ozer, Pam <pozer(at)automotive(dot)com> wrote:
> 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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