I’ve been following this conversation, quite interesting. But, and this is just 
a question for the conversation. Is there any reason when the user registers 
that the user name (email address) isn’t folded into lowercase and stored that 
way?

I might be missing something very obvious (as is usually the case).

Ted



> On Feb 25, 2016, at 6:45 PM, Paul Hoadley <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> On 25 Feb 2016, at 10:43 am, Paul Hoadley <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone suggest a better way? What I really need is a 
>> CaseInsensitiveEquals qualifier, like Java’s equalsIgnoreCase(). Is there 
>> such a thing? Would it be easily implemented?
> 
> Thanks for all the replies on this thread—much appreciated. The summary seems 
> to be:
> 
> 1. You can do this at the EOF level, perhaps with some minor gymnastics, and 
> it might be inefficient.
> 2. You should probably do this at the database level, probably by using a 
> collation on the column.
> 
> We’re using PostgreSQL (via Amazon RDS). Research is suggesting that 
> PostgreSQL isn’t going to make this easy via a collation on a column, though 
> there is the CITEXT type.
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html 
> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html>
> 
> I think that’s where I’ll head. Has anyone used it?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Hoadley
> http://logicsquad.net/ <http://logicsquad.net/>
> 
> 
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