Bruce Richardson wrote:
>Discovering that text fields in Postgres are case sensitive - so "Text"
><> "text" and both can go into the same UNIQUE column - threw me a bit,
>as this is different from other databases I've worked with.
Well, they are different, aren't they?
>Is there a toggle to turn off case sensitivity, either for a whole
>database or for a column? Or do I just have to get used to ~*?
You can create a unique index on lower(column); ~* is very nice,
any way.
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