On Saturday, July 7, 2012 5:25:31 PM UTC-6, cult hero wrote:
>
> I've been looking for the best way to deal with that amounts to a case 
> insensitive column in PostgreSQL. (It stores email addresses.) I've found a 
> couple of options (an index using lower() and triggers using lower()) but 
> is there some way to make validates_unique do so in an insensitive manner? 
> That way is [email protected] is entered, [email protected] will still 
> anger the validation gods. Or do I need to make my own validation for this?


Use citext to store the email address.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/citext.html 

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