Re: How to create case insensitive unique constraint

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Andrus <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee>
Cc: Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to create case insensitive unique constraint
Date: 2005-09-21 16:47:11
Message-ID: 1127321230.3026.201.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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I guess you can create a unique functional index with upper as the
function. Try to look up the docs for CREATE INDEX.

HTH,
Csaba.

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:15, Andrus wrote:
> I want to disable dupplicate customer names in a database regardless to
> case.
>
> I tried
>
> CREATE TABLE customer ( id SERIAL, name CHARACTER(70));
>
> ALTER TABLE customer
> ADD constraint customer_name_unique UNIQUE (UPPER(name));
>
> but this is not allowed in Postgres
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Andrus.
>
>
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