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<p dir="auto">So basically you have to do it in the database in order to efficiently look for duplicates - the alternative to the function would be to add an extra column with the normalized name that was indexed and then you could compute the normalized name in ruby and use the normal rails uniqueness validator on it.</p>
<p dir="auto">Now we might want up wanting to do that anyway if we want to go further than what this does. I know <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/grischard/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/grischard">@grischard</a> keeps threatening to produce a list of homonyms he'd like to block which I'm pretty sure includes things like cyrillic characters that are similar to latin characters which this won't find.</p>
<p dir="auto">Personally I'm happy to go to postgres 13 and ubuntu 22.04 as a minimum - we're getting close to 24.04 now anyway at which point we would normally start to wind down 20.04 support.</p>

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