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# Storing Emails With citext

Email addresses should be treated as case-insensitive because they are. If a user is trying to sign in with their email address, we shouldn't care if they type `user@example.com` or `User@example.com`. Both of those email addresses should be treated as equal and ultimately lead us to the same `User` record.

With the [`citext`](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/citext.html) extension, we can create a column that acts as a case-insensitive text type. Any comparisons on a column of that type will internally have the `lower` function executed on the arguments.

The following example shows this in action:

```sql
create extension if not exists citext;

create table citext_emails (
  id serial primary key,
  email citext not null unique
);

insert into citext_emails (email) values ('LizLemon@nbc.com');

select * from citext_emails where email = 'lizlemon@nbc.com';
--  id |      email
-- ----+------------------
--   1 | LizLemon@nbc.com
```

See [`citext-emails.sql`](https://github.com/jbranchaud/postgresing/blob/master/citext-emails.sql) for a full example.


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