"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 15:35, Tom Lane wrote:
>> BTW, I did confirm (by temporarily hacking up TypeCategory()) that
>> causing citext to appear to be of STRING category eliminates the need
>> for the extra || operator and quote_literal() function that are in
>> the current citext code. So the proposed solution really will work.
> Nice! Does it also allow all of the casts to and from text to
> implicitly work, e.g,
No, but we could think about that. Do we really want that to work for
any member of the string category? It seems a bit overly broad to me
...
regards, tom lane