On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:29:30AM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> I think if you want some special treatment of text for some users, it
> should be explicit. Text in one locale is really a different type from
> text in another locale, and so changing the locale of some text variable
> is really a typecast. I don't think GUCs are the correct mechanism for
> this.

The SQL COLLATE syntax handles this just fine. Either the original
COLLATE patch or the new one will let people tags strings with any
collation they like.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while 
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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• Re: Case-Insensitve Text Comparison at 2008-06-02 17:29:30 from Jeff Davis

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