""" The citext PostgreSQL extension supports indexing of case-insensitive text strings and thus eliminates the need for operations such as iexact and other modifiers to enforce use of an index. """ from django.db import IntegrityError from . import PostgreSQLTestCase from .models import CITestModel class CITextTestCase(PostgreSQLTestCase): @classmethod def setUpTestData(cls): cls.john = CITestModel.objects.create( name='JoHn', email='joHn@johN.com', description='Average Joe named JoHn', ) def test_equal_lowercase(self): """ citext removes the need for iexact as the index is case-insensitive. """ self.assertEqual(CITestModel.objects.filter(name=self.john.name.lower()).count(), 1) self.assertEqual(CITestModel.objects.filter(email=self.john.email.lower()).count(), 1) self.assertEqual(CITestModel.objects.filter(description=self.john.description.lower()).count(), 1) def test_fail_citext_primary_key(self): """ Creating an entry for a citext field used as a primary key which clashes with an existing value isn't allowed. """ with self.assertRaises(IntegrityError): CITestModel.objects.create(name='John')