[rt-users] postgres slowdowns? (pg 7.3.4, rt 3.0.4)

[Ross Patterson]

On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:19 am, Jim Rowan wrote:
> I'd suggest that you just force the emailaddress to be lowercased when
> it is entered or modified.  Pay the penalty once on entry, instead of
> thousands of times an hour...  I can't think of any reason that you WANT
> to preserve the case.

It may be out of fashion these days to have case-sensitive email addresses, 
but it IS legal by spec and some SMTP servers don't ignore case.  So while I 
wouldn't go out of my way to support case-sensitive "local-part"s, I wouldn't 
remove support for them either.
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