Hi,
I've trolled the archives and the FAQ and the closest I could come up with was
the following mailing list message:
http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-general/2001-01/msg01632.html
which advises that you can do something like this to create a case-insensitive
unique index:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX indexname ON tablename (lower(fieldname))
however, that doesn't work under 7.0.2 at least, I get:
mydb=> create unique index forward_rr on forward (lower(name));
ERROR: DefineIndex: function 'lower(varchar)' does not exist
Futhermore, I want to create the case-insensitive unique index on a tuple of
varchar fields, ie.:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX indexname ON tablename (lower(field1), lower(field2), lower(field3))
however, looking at the docs at:
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/sql-createindex.htm
it looks like I will need to instead declare a function f such that it can be used as:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX indexname ON tablename (f(field1, field2, field3))
and f(n1, n2, n3) returns a unique value for unique combinations of n1, n2 and
n3...
Since this sounds like something someone must have already done, or should be
a FAQ, any hints? pointers? functions? PL/SQL code?
Thanks,
Adi