From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, lr(at)pcorp(dot)us |
Subject: | Re: contrib/citext versus collations |
Date: | 2011-06-08 19:26:42 |
Message-ID: | 2837.1307561202@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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I wrote:
> On further reflection, I'm wondering exactly how much goodness to chop
> off there. What I'd originally been thinking was to just lobotomize the
> case-folding step, and allow citext's comparison operators to still
> respond to input collation when comparing the folded strings. However,
> I can imagine that some combinations of languages might produce pretty
> weird results if we do that. Should we lobotomize the comparisons too?
> Or is the ability to affect the sort order valuable enough to put up
> with whatever corner-case funnies there might be?
For lack of any comment on this point, I went with the first approach.
Patch is committed.
regards, tom lane
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