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# Storing Emails With citext
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Email addresses should be treated as case-insensitive because they are. If a
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user is trying to sign in with their email address, we shouldn't care if
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they type `user@example.com` or `User@example.com`. Both of those email
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addresses should be treated as equal and ultimately lead us to the same
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`User` record.
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With the
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[`citext`](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html)
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extension, we can create a column that acts as a case-insensitive text type.
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Any comparisons on a column of that type will internally have the `lower`
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function executed on the arguments.
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The following example shows this in action:
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```sql
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create extension if not exists citext;
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create table citext_emails (
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id serial primary key,
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email citext not null unique
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);
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insert into citext_emails (email) values ('LizLemon@nbc.com');
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select * from citext_emails where email = 'lizlemon@nbc.com';
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-- id | email
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-- ----+------------------
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-- 1 | LizLemon@nbc.com
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```
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See
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[`citext-emails.sql`](https://github.com/jbranchaud/postgresing/blob/master/citext-emails.sql)
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for a full example.
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