Generating Slugs in Postgres

slugify.sql

CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "unaccent";

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION slugify("value" TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT AS $$
  -- removes accents (diacritic signs) from a given string --
  WITH "unaccented" AS (
    SELECT unaccent("value") AS "value"
  ),
  -- lowercases the string
  "lowercase" AS (
    SELECT lower("value") AS "value"
    FROM "unaccented"
  ),
  -- replaces anything that's not a letter, number, hyphen('-'), or underscore('_') with a hyphen('-')
  "hyphenated" AS (
    SELECT regexp_replace("value", '[^a-z0-9\\-_]+', '-', 'gi') AS "value"
    FROM "lowercase"
  ),
  -- trims hyphens('-') if they exist on the head or tail of the string
  "trimmed" AS (
    SELECT regexp_replace(regexp_replace("value", '\\-+$', ''), '^\\-', '') AS "value"
    FROM "hyphenated"
  )
  SELECT "value" FROM "trimmed";
$$ LANGUAGE SQL STRICT IMMUTABLE;

slugify_trigger.sql

CREATE FUNCTION public.set_slug_from_name() RETURNS trigger
    LANGUAGE plpgsql
    AS $$
BEGIN
  NEW.slug := slugify(NEW.name);
  RETURN NEW;
END
$$;

CREATE TRIGGER "trg_slug_insert"
BEFORE INSERT ON "my_table_name"
FOR EACH ROW
WHEN (NEW.name IS NOT NULL AND NEW.slug IS NULL)
EXECUTE PROCEDURE set_slug_from_name();

Thanks for this! Its missing a ; at the final of create extension command.

@abn

`-- original source: https://medium.com/adhawk-engineering/using-postgresql-to-generate-slugs-5ec9dd759e88

-- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/unaccent.html
CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS unaccent;

-- create the function in the public schema
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.slugify(
v TEXT
) RETURNS TEXT
LANGUAGE plpgsql
STRICT IMMUTABLE AS
$function$
BEGIN
-- 1. trim trailing and leading whitespaces from text
-- 2. remove accents (diacritic signs) from a given text
-- 3. lowercase unaccented text
-- 4. replace non-alphanumeric (excluding hyphen, underscore) with a hyphen
-- 5. trim leading and trailing hyphens
RETURN trim(BOTH '-' FROM regexp_replace(lower(unaccent(trim(v))), '[^a-z0-9\\-_]+', '-', 'gi'));
END;
$function$;`