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

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Asko Oja <ascoja(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do we really want to migrate plproxy and citext into PG core distribution?
Date: 2008-07-28 19:42:40
Message-ID: 488E2130.6070701@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Well, it won't make it harder to implement collations; but I worry that
> people who have been relying on the citext syntax will have a hard time
> migrating to collations. Perhaps if someone did the legwork to
> determine exactly what that conversion would look like, it would assuage
> the fear.
>
>

I kind of assumed we would do it by implementing the COLLATE clause of
the CREATE DOMAIN statement.

cheers

andrew

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