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Mike Christensen wrote:
Ah, I should probably upgrade to 8.4. However, I'll probably just
wait for 9.0 to come out. So it seems like citext will be about the
same as casting both sides to LOWER(), plus putting an index on the
lowercase version of the text. I'd probably
On Friday 11 June 2010 09.27:15 Michal Politowski wrote:
[email address local part is case sensitive]
In practice I've yet to see a system having both smith and Smith
and them being different, but still it is theoretically posible.
I routinely modify email addresses I store to my addressbook
2010/6/11 Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com:
Yea this is a valid point. It's very possible my design won't work
for the long term, and at some point I'll have to store the email name
exactly as it was entered, and allow the lookup logic to be case
insensitive with a lowercase index.
n Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote:
Performance test the index:
create test_index on table (lower(fieldname));
versus storing the emails in lower case.
Some quick testing on that tells me that storing in lower case will be
about twice as fast at
Heyho!
On Thursday 10 June 2010 22.50:23 Mike Christensen wrote:
2) Every time the user updates or saves their email, store it in
lowercase, and every time I lookup an email, pass in a lowercase
email.
I'd do it this way. Plus either a CHECK condition on the table (email =
lowercase(email))
Yup, I actually ended up doing this with this constraint:
ALTER TABLE Users ADD CONSTRAINT check_email CHECK (email ~ E'^[^A-Z]+$');
However, I like your version better so I'll use that instead :)
Mike
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Adrian von Bidder
avbid...@fortytwo.ch wrote:
Heyho!
On
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:50:23 -0700, Mike Christensen wrote:
I have a column called email that users login with, thus I need to
be able to lookup email very quickly. The problem is, emails are
case-insensitive. I want f...@bar.com to be able to login with
f...@bar.com as well. There's two
Yea this is a valid point. It's very possible my design won't work
for the long term, and at some point I'll have to store the email name
exactly as it was entered, and allow the lookup logic to be case
insensitive with a lowercase index. However, I think the way I have
it now should not break
I have a column called email that users login with, thus I need to
be able to lookup email very quickly. The problem is, emails are
case-insensitive. I want f...@bar.com to be able to login with
f...@bar.com as well. There's two ways of doing this, that I can see:
1) Every time I lookup an
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.marl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
Where do I get info on installing this?
Very
On 6/10/2010 3:50 PM, Mike Christensen wrote:
I have a column called email that users login with, thus I need to
be able to lookup email very quickly. The problem is, emails are
case-insensitive. I want f...@bar.com to be able to login with
f...@bar.com as well. There's two ways of doing
Ah, I should probably upgrade to 8.4. However, I'll probably just
wait for 9.0 to come out. So it seems like citext will be about the
same as casting both sides to LOWER(), plus putting an index on the
lowercase version of the text. I'd probably use that if it were out
of the box, but I'm
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
I have a column called email that users login with, thus I need to
be able to lookup email very quickly. The problem is, emails are
case-insensitive. I want f...@bar.com to be able to login with
f...@bar.com as well.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
I have a column called email that users login with, thus I need to
be able to lookup email very quickly. The problem is, emails are
case-insensitive. I want f...@bar.com to be able to login with
f...@bar.com as well.
Where do I get info on installing this?
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
I have a column called email that users login with, thus I need to
be able to lookup email very
On 6/10/2010 3:50 PM, Mike Christensen wrote:
I have a column called email that users login with, thus I need to
be able to lookup email very quickly. The problem is, emails are
case-insensitive. I want f...@bar.com to be able to login with
f...@bar.com as well. There's two ways of doing
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
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
Where do I get info on installing this?
Very much depends on OS and how you installed pgsql
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com wrote:
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) =
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