I'm using email addresses as a primary key in one of my tables. Currently, I have to ensure that the email addresses are converted to lower case before they get put into the table, and that all lookups on that field are converted to lower case before the select statement, in order to ensure that Joe@Somewhere.com is the same as joe@somewhere.com.
Does anyone know of a case-insensitive data type? I'd want the following behavior:
/* Make the primary key be a case-insensitive data type */
CREATE TABLE foo (email CASE_INSENSITIVE_VARCHAR(50) PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(50));
/* Insert a row with a case insensitive key */
INSERT 24751 1
/* A different case of an existing primary key should fail */
ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index foo_pkey
/* A lookup on a different case of an existing key should be successful: */
Anyone know how I can accomplish this? Can I create a custom data type to do this?
Thanks, Russell