Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?

Asko Oja wrote:
>
> About citext. Skype is using various hacks and workarounds because
> there was no such type in PostgreSQL and i understand others also. To
> me it seems to be choice between couple of developers doing it once
> and for all and hundreds of developers inventing the wheel every day
> and not to mention hours spent debugging over various layers of
> applications. It just shows how hackers have totally different point
> of view on things from people who are using the program:) But again i
> am just a manager and should be lower than grass in hackers list :)
>
>

Plenty of us who are hackers are also users.

ISTM that Tom's objection is really that citext is a hack, and that it
will actually make it harder for us to get to a collation-based case
insensitive comparison. I think if we adopt that view then we need to
form a plan for doing this right, and soon, as it is a significant
current pain point, especially for people migrating from other databases.

cheers

andrew