Re: Best way to store case-insensitive data?

Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com>

From: Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-06-10T21:34:25Z
Lists: pgsql-general
From this site:

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/citext.html

I couldn't tell if you still had to create an index on the lower case
value.  It seems that it basically mimics the WHERE LOWER(email) =
LOWER(?) method.  Since this part is incredibly performance critical,
maybe I'm better off storing my data all in lowercase and keeping the
DB case sensitive.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com> wrote:
> Right now, I'm running 8.3.4 on Windows 2003, and I just used the MSI
> installer to install it.
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com> wrote:
>>> Where do I get info on installing this?
>>
>> Very much depends on OS and how you installed pgsql
>>
>