I wanted to have a case insensitive database column to store email address in the open source application I’m working on. I’m using PostgreSQL and there’s a nice extension that does exactly that - citext - so I gave it a try. I spent some time figuring things out so now I’m sharing the knowledge in this blog post. The instructions were tested in Elixir 1.5.3 / Phoenix 1.3.0 application. We start b