Unique model field in Django and case sensitivity (postgres)

Question

Consider the following situation: -

Suppose my app allows users to create the states / provinces in their country. Just for clarity, we are considering only ASCII ch

Answer 1

You can use lookup='iexact' in UniqueValidator on serializer, like this:

class StateSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): 
    name = serializers.CharField(validators=[
    UniqueValidator(
        queryset=models.State.objects.all(),lookup='iexact'
    )]

django version: 1.11.6