Django CITEXT

PostgreSQL CITEXT integration for Django.

Setup

python3 -m pip install django-citext

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'citext',
    # ...
]

Usage

# myapp/models.py
from django.db import models
from citext import CITextField, CIEmailField


class MyModel(models.Model):
    name = CITextField()
    email = CIEmailField(unique=True)

# myapp/views.py
from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseNotFound

from . import models


def my_view(request, email):
    try:
        my_model = models.MyModel.objects.get(email=email)
    except models.MyModel.DoesNotExist:
        return HttpResponseNotFound()
    return HttpResponse(my_model.name)

Credits

Project is based on the Django's own CITEXT implementation, which was removed in Django 5.0. Big thanks to the Django contributors for their excellent work.